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SUBMITTER: Kotter HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5965174 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kotter Haleigh C HC Weingrow Daniel D Canders Caleb P CP
Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine 20170706 3
Hematometrocolpos is a rare congenital abnormality of the female urogenital system that leads to an imperforate hymen and subsequent retrograde menstruation. We present the case of a 14-year-old female patient who presented to the emergency department with amenorrhea and abdominal pain, and was found to have an imperforate hymen and hematometrocolpos on trans-abdominal point-of-care ultrasound. It is important for emergency physicians to consider this diagnosis in pubescent female patients prese ...[more]