Towards a separate adolescent medicine.

[Adolescent medicine].

Adolescent medicine.

In a survey of children and adolescents, one fourth of respondents reported having experienced an assault or abuse in the previous year. Violence is not restricted to inner cities. Marijuana use among eighth graders has more than doubled since 1991.

Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine

Patients of different age with stunting one (85) or both extremities (153) discovered that in the remote terms after surgical lengthening of the limbs by Ilizarov increases stride length, but the scale of the change in length of the limbs is limited by the necessity of obtaining the effect of increasing the speed of locomotion defined by the degree of conservation than the maximum moment of mus...

Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine

Cortical development malformations (CDM) and specifically disorders of neuronal migration are a group of congenital malformations of the central nervous system (CNS) that are linked to some of the neurodevelopment disorders frequently described in children, such as mental retardation, autism, schizophrenia and epilepsy, among others. CDM are classified into three groups: Group I for alterations...

Holistic adolescent medicine

The leading causes of mortality in adolescents continue to be accidents, homicide, suicide, sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancy, eating disorders and drug abuse related mortality. All these causes are preventable and primarily due to risk taking behaviors related to the developmental stage of adolescents. The same risk taking behaviors are also leading causes of morbidity. In many i...