{"pk":407,"title":"Hematometrocolpos in a Pubescent Girl with Abdominal Pain","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Hematometrocolpos is a rare congenital abnormality of the female urogenital system that leadsto an imperforate hymen and subsequent retrograde menstruation. We present the case of a14-year-old female patient who presented to the emergency department with amenorrhea andabdominal pain, and was found to have an imperforate hymen and hematometrocolpos on transabdominalpoint-of-care ultrasound. It is important for emergency physicians to consider thisdiagnosis in pubescent female patients presenting with abdominal pain, as missed diagnosis canlead to infertility and other complications.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Case Reports","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55p4d86x","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Haleigh","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Kotter","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCLA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Weingrow","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCLA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Caleb","middle_name":"P.","last_name":"Canders","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCLA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2017-07-05T16:58:38-07:00","date_accepted":"2017-07-05T16:58:38-07:00","date_published":"2017-07-06T12:09:04-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_cpcem/article/407/galley/171/download/"}]}