Download Adnexal And Cervical Motion Tenderness Gif. If you are experiencing adnexal tenderness it may be due to cysts or ectopic pregnancy. Cervical motion tenderness (cmt), when present, is classically found on bimanual examination of the cervix and uterus.

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Learn more about what could be causing your adnexal tenderness and how to diagnose. Cervical motion, uterine, or adnexal tenderness should place pelvic inflammatory disease high in the differential diagnosis of pelvic pain when no other etiology exists. Unpleasant sensation or response elicited on pelvic examination with movement of the cervix by the clinician's gloved hand, usually indicative of inflammatory processes in the pelvic organs or of those adjacent organs that may be moved during such examination.

Classically, it is present in the setting of pelvic inflammatory disease (pid) or ectopic pregnancy and is of some use to help differentiate pid from appendicitis.

Pid should be suspected in young, sexually active women who present with lower abdominal pain and adnexal/cervical motion tenderness. Abdominal pain, adnexal tenderness on bimanual exam, and cervical motion tenderness. Cmt is often associated with pid but can be present in other disease entities. Cervical motion tenderness, adnexal tenderness, foul smelling vaginal drainage.