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: Monteiro Cunha, Sara (author)
Other Authors: Leite, Sara (author), Vasconcelos, Sofia (author), Meireles, Carla (author), Gonzaga, Luís (author), São Simão, Teresa (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/2573
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.chporto.pt:10400.16/2573