Every woman or girl with acute abdominal pain needs an abdominal and pelvic ultrasound. This is a great video on locating the ovaries (so, for example, you don’t miss a case of ovarian pathology such as torsion* or cyst).
Hot Tips – Locating the Ovaries on Transabdominal Ultrasound. YouTube video, Dec 3, 2014. 2:52 from Gulfcoast Ultrasound. Start at 58 seconds, the first part is “humor”, but after that it is very good.
Additional Resources:
Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Practical Approach. 2014. A Abuhamad MD. [Free Full Text PDF available online] [Link to Download Free]
*Ovarian Torsion Ultrasound Discussed by Radiologist. YouTube, May 29, 2013, 8:08
*Ovarian Torsion from Medscape . Updated: Feb 25, 2014. Accessed 6-4-2015
