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Pelvic inflammatory disease - Management
What else might it be?
- Lower abdominal pain in a young woman may also be due to:
- An ectopic pregnancy.
- Threatened abortion.
- Ruptured corpus luteal cyst.
- Acute appendicitis:
- Nausea and vomiting occur in most women with appendicitis, but in only 50% of women with pelvic inflammatory disease.
- Cervical motion pain occurs in about 25% of women with acute appendicitis.
- Endometriosis.
- Gastrointestinal disorders (most commonly irritable bowel syndrome).
- Complications of an ovarian cyst, such as rupture, torsion, or haemorrhage.
- Urinary tract infection.
- Functional pain (that is of unknown physical origin). There may be longstanding symptoms.
- Mittelschmerz pain.
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