An 11-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of left lower abdominal pain, blood-streaked emesis, and anorexia. She denied history of fever, weight loss, diarrhea, dysuria,...
A 61-year-old woman with a history of bladder prolapse and normal kidney function developed complications after a recent laparoscopic sacral colpopexy for urinary incontinence. Computed tomography scans...
A 34-year-old woman with a medical history significant for allergic rhinitis, seasonal allergies, and childhood eczema presented with concern for a genital lesion of 2 days’ duration.
A 14-year-old girl presented to her pediatrician with a 1-day history of abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. She reported that she had expelled a “mass” per vaginam a few hours ago.
Lumbar epidural anesthesia is frequently administered to the obstetric patient. The loss of resistance is a well-established technique to identify and access the epidural space; however, this technique is...
A 7-year-old girl was transferred from an outside hospital to an emergency department for further evaluation of vaginal bleeding. Reportedly, the child’s introitus had been penetrated when she had fallen...
Taking a detailed history in women presenting with symptoms indicative of a urinary tract infection is essential in the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of recurrent UTIs.
A 38-year-old woman with no significant medical history presented to an urgent care center with mild dysuria, urgency, and hesitancy of 1 week’s duration.
The authors report 2 cases, one in which a patient with cervical adenocarcinoma developed pyometra, and another in which longstanding pyometra mimicked endometrial carcinoma.
Lupus can lead to an unsafe pregnancy and must be monitored and managed at all stages. Megan Clowse, MD, from Duke University, answers our questions about challenges that come with lupus in women who are...
