The surgery is a simple outpatient procedure usually performed in your doctor's office in Forest Hills, Queens. Your hymen is opened with scissors or a scalpel, and the tissue is cut away. To close the incisions, your gynecologist will use the sutures that will dissolve on their own
Other findings that may be present include an abdominal mass, urinary retention, dysuria, constipation, and dyschezia.
At puberty, a patient with an imperforate hymen typically presents with a vaginal bulge of thin hymenal tissue with a dark or bluish hue caused by the hematocolpos behind it.