We describe a case of severe perianal Crohn’s disease masquerading as perianal warts in a non-sexually active adolescent girl presenting to a genitourinary medicine clinic. Perianal Crohn’s disease should always be suspected in children and adolescents presenting with perianal skin manifestations to any healthcare settings in order to avoid delay in diagnosis and treatment of this chronic disab...

The United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign, an initiative dedicated to promoting the health, education, and leadership of adolescent girls in developing communities around the world, hosted its annual Girl Up Leadership Summit in Washington, DC from July 11-13, 2016. The summit welcomed more than 275 girl empowerment and women empowerment proponents to take part in leadership training, li...

Concussions commonly occur in adolescents. Although the majority of adolescent patients' symptoms resolve, about 11% continue to experience symptoms at 3 months. Standard treatment options for prolonged symptoms are not available, and the role of osteopathic manipulative treatment in the management of adolescent concussions is unclear. The authors describe a case of a 16-year-old girl with a hi...

Children and adolescents are being treated with antipsychotics more often than before, although the risk of adverse events in this age group still remains unclear. Because of increased use of antipsychotics in children and adolescents, their endocrine and metabolic side-effects (weight gain, obesity, and related metabolic deviations) are of particular worrying, especially within pediatric and a...

The viral myocarditis is the most common cause of heart failure in previously healthy children. We herewith present an adolescent girl admitted with acute myocarditis findings, heart failure and arrhythmia. Cardiological studies verified the diagnosis and patient received intravenous immuneglobuline solution in addition to supportive therapy. Her clinical picture was finally attributed to unict...

OBJECTIVE To assess the health and economic outcomes of various screening and vaccination strategies for cervical cancer prevention. DESIGN Cost-effectiveness analysis from a societal perspective. SETTING Thailand. POPULATION Females aged 9 years and older. METHODS Using a mathematical model of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cervical cancer, calibrated to epidemiological data ...

Endometrial cancer is the third most common gynecologic cancer in the Korea and occurs mainly in menopausal women. Although it can develop in young premenopausal women cancer as well, an attack in the adolescent girl is very rare. A 13-year-old girl visited gynecology department with the complaint of abnormal uterine bleeding. An endometrial biopsy revealed FIGO (International Federation of Gyn...

Introduction. Vulvar cyst in adolescent girls is very uncommon. Epidermoid cyst can be seen in many sites including face, trunk, and extremities but its occurrence in vulva is uncommon. This is the first case of epidermoid cyst of vulva reported in an adolescent girl. Case. A 17-year-old, adolescent girl admitted to our gynecology outpatient clinic with a complaint of painful and palpable mass ...

The aim of this study is to find out the correlation between body image and social anxiety in obese adolescent girl. Adolescent girls who are will tend experience because negative that appears them. was conducted on 129 age 12-21 years old. data collected using questionnaire MBSRQ-AS (Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionaire-Appearance Scales) Social Anxiety Scale for (SAS-A). analyzed...