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Abstract
One hundred women between ages 15 and 19 were evaluated for chronic pelvic pain. At
laparoscopy, 46 had a normal pelvis, 29 had evidence of pelvic inflammatory disease,
12 had endometriosis, and 13 had other pelvic pathology. Diagnostic laparoscopy may
be of significant value in the evaluation of adolescent women with chronic pelvic
pain of uncertain etiology that fails conservative medical therapy.
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© 1988 Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
