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Acute onset pelvic pain is an extremely common
presentation in premenopausal women who are
presenting to ED after excluding pregnancy in
reproductive age .Usually ultrasound plays a major
role to identify causes of acute pelvic pain
,ie hemorrhagic ovarian cysts, endometriosis,
ovarian torsion ,tubo-ovarian abscess ! .
Our mission as radiologists is to
differentiate between condition in-order to
manage either conservatively or requiring urgent
surgical/ percutaneous intervention.
Advantages:
Safer than X-ray and CAT scans - no radiation
Doesn't cause ionising - no cancer risk.
Availablity .
CONS :
Group
C