A woman has a positive pregnancy test and comes to you with left lower quadrant pain. On bimanual examination, you feel a tender mass. Which of the following should you suspect?
A) Threatened abortion
B) Appendicitis
C) Ovarian cyst
D) Tubal pregnancy
D) Tubal pregnancy
Lower quadrant pain in a young woman could represent any of these possibilities. A positive HCG and left-sided but not right-sided pain make appendicitis less likely. The presence of an extrauterine mass makes threatened abortion less likely.
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