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Prepubertal Genital Bleeding

  • Carolinas Medical Center

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDisorders of Menstruation
PublisherWiley Blackwell
Pages10-18
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9781444332773
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 8 2011

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Medicine

Keywords

  • Examination positioning - frog-leg
  • Genital bleeding, in prepubertal female - frightening for the girl and her parents
  • Genital examination documentation - techniques and position utilized
  • Genital examination, in physical examination - signs or symptoms, history of complaint first obtained
  • Hymenal variants, focus of hymenal examination - from 3 to 9 o'clock, patient being supine
  • Medical provider's role, to diagnose - and treat cause of bleeding, least traumatic to all involved
  • Organisms implicated in prepubertal vulvovaginitis
  • Prepubertal genital bleeding
  • Prepubertal genital bleeding causes
  • Three examination positions - performing gynecologic examinations in children/young adolescents

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