Emergency Department Evaluation of Abdominal Pain in Adolescent Females

(Abstracted from J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 2021;34(5):649–655) Abdominal pain is a very common chief complaint among adolescents presenting to the emergency department (ED) and poses a challenge to physicians given the vast differential diagnosis varying with patient age and gender. Consideration of ovarian and gynecologic pathologies is necessary in female patients to avoid missing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), pregnancy, sexual...