Dolor pélvico en ni？as y adolescentes: Hallazgos ultrasonográficos

objective: to describe the ultrasonographic findings in children and adolescent girls that consulted for pelvic pain between march and october 2008. methods: descriptive study. sample: 190 children and adolescent girls that met the inclusion criteria. setting: servicio de ginecologia infanto juvenil del hospital de ni？os "dr. jose manuel de los rios". results: a total of 11 children, 76 early, 75 medium and 21 late adolescent girls were studied. the groups were homogeneous for the uterine and ovarian measurements. 57 patients consulted for pelvic pain, 9 for dysmenorrhea and 3 for ultrasonographic findings of para uterine tumors. the age group with more findings was the early adolescence (34 patients). in 67.9 % there were no findings and in 32.1 % ultrasonographic changes were found. the 16 % consulted for acute pelvic pain and 84 % for chronic pelvic pain. the 77.4 % consulted for sharp pelvic pain and 22,6 % for colic pelvic pain. the dominant follicle was the ultrasonographic finding in the higher percentage of patients (10,5 %). conclusions: the higher percentage of patients included in this study had a normal pelvic ultrasound. the ultrasound is the accepted method for diagnostic of images in patients with pelvic pain.