Contents: Adolescent medicine

Drug abuse
  • Cocaine: Acute intoxication
  • Designer drugs in children and adolescents
  • Inhalant abuse in children and adolescents
  • Opioid intoxication in children and adolescents
  • Overview of phencyclidine (PCP) intoxication in children and adolescents
Eating disorders
  • Eating disorders: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and clinical features
  • Eating disorders: Treatment and outcome
Endocrinology
  • Acquired hypothyroidism in childhood and adolescence
  • Clinical features and diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescents
  • Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of hyperthyroidism in children and adolescents
  • Contraception: Overview of issues specific to adolescents
  • Definition, pathogenesis, and etiology of polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescents
  • Diagnosis and treatment of delayed puberty
  • Epidemiology and pathogenesis of premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder
  • Evaluation of oligomenorrhea in adolescence
  • Normal puberty
  • Ovarian and fallopian tube torsion
  • Ovarian cysts and neoplasms in infants, children, and adolescents
  • Primary dysmenorrhea in adolescents
  • Steroid hormone metabolism in polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescents
Gastroenterology
  • Causes of acute abdominal pain in children
  • Evaluation of the child and adolescent with chronic abdominal pain
  • Management of the child and adolescent with chronic abdominal pain
  • Patient information: Chronic abdominal pain in children and adolescents
General issues
  • Adolescent sexuality
  • Clinical features; evaluation; and diagnosis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
  • Confidentiality in adolescent health care
  • Consent in adolescent health care
  • Guidelines for adolescent preventive services
  • Tattooing and body piercing
  • The choking game and other strangulation activities in children and adolescents
  • Treatment of acne vulgaris
Infectious diseases
  • Clinical features and diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Clinical trials of human papillomavirus vaccines
  • Disseminated gonococcal infection
  • Pathogenesis of and risk factors for pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Recommendations for the use of human papillomavirus vaccines
  • Sexually transmitted diseases in adolescents
  • The life cycle, natural history, and immunology of human papillomaviruses
  • Treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease
Nutritional issues
  • Adolescent eating habits
  • Calcium requirements in adolescents
  • Dietary energy requirements in adolescents
  • Fast food for children and adolescents
  • Iron requirements and iron deficiency in adolescents
  • Vegetarian diets for children
  • Zinc deficiency and supplementation in children and adolescents
Psychosocial issues
  • Depression in adolescents: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
  • Effect of antidepressants on suicide risk in children and adolescents
  • Epidemiology and risk factors for suicidal behavior in children and adolescents
  • Evaluation and management of suicidal behavior in children and adolescents
  • Overview of treatment for adolescent depression
  • Peer violence and violence prevention
  • Psychopharmacological treatment for adolescent depression
  • Psychosocial treatment for adolescent depression
  • Television and media violence
Reproductive health issues
  • Adolescent sexuality
  • Clinical features and diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescents
  • Contraception: Overview of issues specific to adolescents
  • Definition and evaluation of abnormal uterine bleeding in adolescents
  • Definition, pathogenesis, and etiology of polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescents
  • Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate for contraception
  • Diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis in adolescents
  • Differential diagnosis and approach to the adolescent with abnormal uterine bleeding
  • Epidemiology and pathogenesis of premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder
  • Evaluation of oligomenorrhea in adolescence
  • Management of abnormal uterine bleeding in adolescents
  • Ovarian cysts and neoplasms in infants, children, and adolescents
  • Overview of breast disorders in children and adolescents
  • Overview of breast masses in children and adolescents
  • Overview of causes of genital tract bleeding in women
  • Overview of contraception
  • Patient information: Adolescent sexuality
  • Pregnancy in adolescents
  • Primary dysmenorrhea in adolescents
  • Steroid hormone metabolism in polycystic ovary syndrome
  • The normal menstrual cycle
  • Treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescents
Urologic issues
  • Causes of painless scrotal swelling in children and adolescents
  • Causes of scrotal pain in children and adolescents
  • Evaluation of scrotal pain or swelling in children and adolescents
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