Pelvic pain most often involves the gastrointestinal or the urinary systems in pre-pubertal girls. However, during late adolescence, gynecologic conditions become more prevalent as etiologies for pelvic pain. Dysmenorrhea and noncyclic pelvic pain are common in adolescents and the management of chronic pelvic pain is often more complex than in adult women.

In today's episode we will discuss how to diagnosis and treat possible gynecologic and non-gynecologic conditions of chronic pelvic pain in the adolescent female with Stephen Scott, MD.

Dr. Scott is the endowed chair of Perinatal Mental Health and a member of the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology team at Children's Hospital Colorado. Dr. Scott is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

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