Joint restriction in an unhappy teenager

Joint restriction in an unhappy teenager.

A 14 year old girl presented with a year’s history of joint pain, restriction, and swelling, initially diagnosed as juvenile idiopathic arthritis. She had no past medical problems but had given up her leisure pursuits owing to disability. Examination disclosed non-pitting oedema to midcalf; a woody texture of the soft tissues of the forearms and calves with fixed flexion deformities of her fing...

A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

We developed a smartphone technology to sample people's ongoing thoughts, feelings, and actions and found (i) that people are thinking about what is not happening almost as often as they are thinking about what is and (ii) found that doing so typically makes them unhappy.

An outgoing teenager who attempts suicide.

Huge teratoma in a teenager

Mature cystic teratoma is the most common ovarian tumor in young females. We are presenting a 13-year-old African-American female with abdominal distension. Computed tomography of the abdomen showed midline cystic mass. Diagnosis was confirmed after laparoscopic left salpingo-oophorectomy. Malignant transformation of mature cystic teratoma is rare.

[Teenager counselling in primary care].

BACKGROUND Teenager counseling to recognize risks and reinforce strengths is carried out in a primary care outpatient clinic since 2003. AIM To describe the epidemiology and causes for consultation in this teenage counseling program. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective review of the records of 116 teenagers (median age 13 years, 67% females) that received teenager counseling. RESULTS Seven...