Acute abdominal pain in a 13-year-old female adolescent

Introduction: Ovarian torsion can occur at any pediatric age, mainly between the ages of 9 and 14 years. Diagnosis is challenging, as symptoms are nonspecific, misleading to other more common diagnoses, as genitourinary and gastrointestinal disorders. In children, ovarian lesions leading to torsion...

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Main Author: Cunha,Sara Monteiro (author)
Other Authors: Leite,Sara (author), Vasconcelos,Sofia (author), Meireles,Carla (author), Gonzaga,Luís (author), Simão,Teresa São (author)
Format: report
Language:eng
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0872-07542020000300004
Country:Portugal
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