Background: Pityriasis rubra pilaris (PRP) is a rare skin disease characterized by follicular hyperkeratosis, perifollicular erythema with islands of normal skin scattered over the sheets of erythroderma, palmoplantar hyperkeratosis and pityriasis capitis with unknown etiology. Objective: This study has been done in order to determine the demographics, clinical and therapeutic aspects of PRP pa...

This research studies the sociological factors involving in boys  juvenile delinquency in Golestan (Northern province of Iran). Delinquent behavior treats the health of family and society and causes family disorder. It tries to understand the role of family and peer groups in delinquency. As we see in Sutherland theory of differential reinforcement association and Hirshi social control verif...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT-A) injections produce the same structural changes in juvenile and adult muscle. METHODS The present study was carried out in the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from October 2010 to May 2011. A total of 32 adult and 32 juvenile rats were used. Electron micr...

FOR the purpose of this paper it is to be understood that the term " juvenile rheumatism " refers to rheumatic disease occurring in children under the age of sixteen. This definition is convenient rather than scientific. It is convenient clinically, in that by far the greater number of initial attacks occur before the age of sixteen, and it has the further practical convenience that up to this ...

Teopod2 (Tp2) is a semi-dominant mutation of maize that prolongs the expression of characteristics normally confined to the juvenile phase of development. Two of the many dramatic morphological effects of this mutation are an increase in the number of vegetative nodes, and a reduction in the overall size of the shoot. To determine the cellular basis of these phenotypes, the technique of clonal ...

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is a comparatively benign form of idiopathic generalised epilepsy. Little is known about the prevalence of difficult to treat or drug resistant patients. Among 155 consecutive patients with newly diagnosed juvenile myoclonic epilepsy evaluated between 1981 and 1998 and followed up for at least 1 year (61 men, 94 women; aged 15-70 years, mean 33 (SD 10.3); onset of ju...

A FEW decades ago intestinal polyposis was regarded as a single entity, but increasing knowledge has led to the identification of a number of different syndromes. The term polyposis coli is usually taken to mean familial adenomatosis coli, a premalignant condition occurring in adolescents and adults. Although there have been many reports of colonic polyposis in children, discussions on the subj...

OBJECTIVE Information about the psychiatric histories of adults with anxiety disorders was examined to further inform nosology and etiological/ preventive efforts. METHOD The authors used data from a prospective longitudinal study of a representative birth cohort (N=1,037) from ages 11 to 32 years, making psychiatric diagnoses according to DSM criteria. For adults with anxiety disorders at 32...

Introduction: Juvenile localized scleroderma is a polymorphic disease. It is more prevalent in girls and has a significant morbidity. Extra-cutaneous involvement is common, and polyautoimmunity can reach 7%. The clinical characteristics of this disease in Colombian patients are currently unknown. Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics, morbidity and outcomes in patients with juveni...