Benign Tumors of the Female Reproductive Tract

Adolescent Age Group - In ammatory Masses

  

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Adolescent Age Group - Pregnancy

 

Pregnancy should always be considered

Adolescents more likely to deny the possibility of pregnancy.

Ectopic pregnancies may cause pelvic pain and an adnexal mass.

Quantitative  measurements  of  b-hCG,  ectopic  pregnancies  are  being

discovered  before  rupture,  allowing  conservative  management  with

laparoscopic surgery or medical therapy with methotrexate.

In adolescents, pregnancy should always be considered as a cause of a

pelvic mass.

Adolescents may be more likely than adults to deny the possibility of

pregnancy  because  of  wishful  thinking,  anxiety  about  discovery  by

parents  or  peers,  or  unfamiliarity  with  menstrual  cycles  and

information about fertility

Ectopic pregnancies may cause pelvic pain and an adnexal mass. With

the  availability  of  quantitative  measurements  of  b-human  chorionic

gonadotropin  (hCG),  more  ectopic  pregnancies  are  being  discovered

before  rupture,  allowing  conservative  management  with  laparoscopic

surgery or medical therapy with methotrexate.

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