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Hyperandrogenism in Adolescent Girls

2012
When the symptoms of hyperandrogenism are mild in an adolescent girl, it is difficult to establish whether they are related to the physiological androgenization of puberty or to an incipient disease. The most frequent etiology is the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Sophie, Catteau-Jonard, Christine, Cortet-Rudelli, Chloé, Richard-Proust, Didier, Dewailly   +3 more
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Asymptomatic rickets in adolescent girls

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2007
Inadequate sunlight exposure and calcium intake during rapid growth at puberty lead to hypocalcemia, hypovitaminosis D and eventually to overt rickets. To determine serum biochemical findings of rickets in healthy 11-15 yr old girls, the effect of sunlight exposure and oral vitamin D supplementation on serum 25- hydroxy vitamin D and calcium ...
Hossein, Dahifar, Ali, Faraji, Saeid, Yassobi, Aboulfazl, Ghorbani   +3 more
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Gonococcal Arthritis in an Adolescent Girl

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1971
Gonococcal arthritis may occur in female adolescents, may involve more than one joint, and the Neisseria gonorrhoeae organism may be recovered from the periarticular tissues after initial acute inflammation has subsided, as illustrated by a girl aged 14 years and 8 months.
G F, Brewer, J R, Davis, M, Grossman
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PNEUMOCOCCAL PERITONITIS IN ADOLESCENT GIRLS

Medical Journal of Australia, 1979
Two cases of pneumococcal peritonitis, which occurred after puberty in previously healthy adolescent girls, are described. In each case, the infection was caused by a Type 1 tetracycline-resistant pneumococcus.
A C, McFarlane, L K, Hamra, E, Reiss-Levy, D, Hansman   +3 more
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Profiles of Normal Adolescent Girls

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1968
FOR comparative studies of adolescence, the evaluations of normal populations can add much to data which are now derived mainly from patient populations. To know the deviant is to know something about the society that calls him deviant; studying the society directly tells us in what way the deviants' behaviors are unusual and in what way typical for ...
D, Offer, J L, Offer
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Management of Hyperandrogenism in Adolescent Girls

Hormone Research, 1991
Hyperandrogenism in adolescent girls can be a troubling problem because of the difficulty in establishing a diagnosis and in prescribing appropriate therapy. Androgen excess in adolescent patients encompasses a spectrum of clinical presentations, including acne, hirsutism, oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea, virilism, and ovarian cysts.
C, Sultan, R, Medlej, C, Chevalier, J M, Lobaccaro   +3 more
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Severe hypertension in an adolescent girl

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1982
rectal wall distention and anoxia. Although constipated, our patient was only significantly distended at 2 days and 2 months of age, making it difficult to account for the loss of ganglion ceils on this basis. In fact, constipation probably was the result of an initial absence (or early disappearance) of ganglion cells from the sigmoid.
J A, Elrod, B A, Warady, E C, Beatty, E, Duggan, F, Mansour, T H, Smith, S, Hellerstein   +6 more
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Ovarian Masses in Adolescent Girls

2012
Ovarian masses are the most frequent gynecological pathology seen in adolescent girls. Functional or organic tumors of the ovary are usually benign and the incidence rises with age. Most cysts are functional and adnexal torsion is the main complication, but a malignant etiology must nevertheless always be eliminated.
A, Cartault, S, Caula-Legriel, C, Baunin, A, Le Mandat, F, Lemasson, P, Galinier, C, Pienkowski   +6 more
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Health concerns of adolescent girls

Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 1995
An anonymous self-report questionnaire designed to assess adolescent girls' health concerns was administered to 1,416 female students in grades 7-10 from 38 schools in northwestern Ontario. Results indicated that the future and items of appearance were of the highest level of concern in the sample.
L, McKay, E, Diem
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Chondrosarcoma of the scapula in an adolescent girl

Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, 1998
with a loose annular ligament since birth. Adding to this condition, repetitive mechanical stresses in his work and playing a drum may have caused this tissue fibrosis, thickenin ing to snapping o f , and chondroid metaplasia, leadthe ‘oint, as is observed in the knee ioint.
K, Anderson, M D, Locke, N C, Carroll
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