ESPE Abstracts

Traditional medical management of children born with atypical genitals includes genital surgery during early childhood. Young children cannot give informed consent and surgery is usually undertaken after a decision made by the multidisciplinary team with parental input. Long-term outcomes are uncertain and there is scanty research supporting the benefits of surgery on physical or mental well-being. Adult patients clearly describe the distress of multiple genital operations dur...

Backround: Menstrual disorders are common among the adolescent girls. We examined the initial investigations performed in adolescents, presenting with frequent, heavy or painful periods. Although, usually abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in adolescent women is attributable to immaturity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis, underlying conditions such as coagulation disorders and anemia should always kept in mind. However, neither the laboratory nor the ultrasound investig...