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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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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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author | Mwenda, Aruyaru Stanley |
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description | 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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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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Mwenda, Aruyaru Stanley 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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