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Imperforate Hymen - a rare cause of acute abdominal pain and tenesmus: case report and review of the literature

Imperforate hymen is a rare condition that presents with amenorrhea, cyclical abdominal pains and urine retention among pubertal girls. A 14 year old girl with imperforate hymen underwent hymenotomy for hematocolpometra, having presented with abdominal pains and tenesmus.

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Autor principal: Mwenda, Aruyaru Stanley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24009804
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.15.28.2251
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spelling pubmed-37588512013-09-04 Imperforate Hymen - a rare cause of acute abdominal pain and tenesmus: case report and review of the literature Mwenda, Aruyaru Stanley Pan Afr Med J Case Report Imperforate hymen is a rare condition that presents with amenorrhea, cyclical abdominal pains and urine retention among pubertal girls. A 14 year old girl with imperforate hymen underwent hymenotomy for hematocolpometra, having presented with abdominal pains and tenesmus. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3758851/ /pubmed/24009804 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.15.28.2251 Text en © Aruyaru Stanley Mwenda et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Imperforate Hymen - a rare cause of acute abdominal pain and tenesmus: case report and review of the literature
title Imperforate Hymen - a rare cause of acute abdominal pain and tenesmus: case report and review of the literature
title_full Imperforate Hymen - a rare cause of acute abdominal pain and tenesmus: case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Imperforate Hymen - a rare cause of acute abdominal pain and tenesmus: case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Imperforate Hymen - a rare cause of acute abdominal pain and tenesmus: case report and review of the literature
title_short Imperforate Hymen - a rare cause of acute abdominal pain and tenesmus: case report and review of the literature
title_sort imperforate hymen - a rare cause of acute abdominal pain and tenesmus: case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24009804
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.15.28.2251
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