hrp0084wg5.4 | Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology | ESPE2015

Diagnosis and Management of Endometriosis in Adolescence

Puttemans Patrick

The presence of endometriosis, from minimal/mild disease up to the rASRM classification for endometriosis stages III and IV, has been described repeatedly in adolescent women. The complaints are common and elicit compassion, but rarely stimulate a thorough research of the cause. The clinical reality is that common complaints of dysmenorrhea or acyclic pelvic pain – even before the onset of menstruation – may hide a disease the severity of which is not reflected by th...