title: Chronic abdominal pain in a patient with escobar syndrome.
abstract: Escobar syndrome is characterized with multiple pterygia or webs of the skin and multiple congenital anomalies. We present a 15-year-old patient with Escobar syndrome who complained of persistent blunt abdominal pain for 1 year. Preoperative evaluation confirmed the diagnosis of imperforate hymen, and the patient underwent hymenectomy under intravenous sedation. The patient's postoperative course was uneventful and her complaints resolved completely. After a 3-month follow-up, she reported having normal menstrual bleeding intervals each month without any complications. Patients with Escobar syndrome may suffer from abdominal pain due to imperforate hymen. Careful evaluation of these patients must include a complete gynaecological assessment and, if indicated, surgical treatment must be performed without delay.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University School of Medicine, Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ülkü Mete
authors.initials: ÜM
authors.lastname: Ural
authors.forename: Yeşim Bayoğlu
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Tekın
authors.forename: Figen
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kir Şahın
authors.forename: Başar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Erdıvanli
authors.forename: Hızır
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kazdal
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain; D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D000293:Adolescent; D059350:Chronic Pain; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006924:Hymen / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D008305:Malignant Hyperthermia / Q000150:complications*; D008599:Menstruation Disturbances / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D012868:Skin Abnormalities / Q000150:complications*