Showing 1 - 20 of 161 results filtered by
Delayed Puberty, What is delayed puberty? [ 1 ] Normal puberty occurs across an age range, and diagnosis of pathology requires familiarity with the normal range. , ...
Precocious Puberty (Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment), There is a strong correlation of timing of puberty within families. Classification of precocious puberty Preco...
Normal and Abnormal Puberty (Stages and Assessments), See also the separate Delayed Puberty and Precocious Puberty articles. What is puberty? Pubert...
Paediatric vulvovaginitis is a common cause of soreness or irritation of the genital area of young girls before puberty. It is usually caused by a combination of a natural lack of oestrogen a...
How is adrenarche different to puberty? Puberty tends to occur a few years after adrenarche in the teen years. Puberty relates to the changes that happen to the body as a...
Males with Klinefelter's syndrome have small testicles (testes) which do not produce enough of the male hormone testosterone before birth and during puberty. This lack of testosterone mea...
Autonomous endocrine hyperfunction (including precocious puberty, thyrotoxicosis, pituitary gigantism and Cushing's syndrome). Fibrous dysplasia has three clinical patterns: monosto...
If testosterone deficiency develops before puberty then it may also cause: Delayed puberty. Lack of deepening of the voice. Impaired growth of the penis and testicles.
Premature or delayed menarche should be investigated - ie before 8 years or after 15 years. [ 2 ] See the separate Normal and Abnormal Puberty, Delayed Puberty and Precocious...
It is common in men aged 15-30 years and in men aged over 60 years and is rare before puberty. About 3 in 10 boys who have mumps after puberty develop orchitis. The risk of developin...
Most cases develop in children between the ages of 9 and 14 years during the growth spurt of puberty. Scoliosis is usually mild and needs no treatment. For more severe cases treatments includ...
Unlike lymphoedema, it isn't caused by surgery or infection - it often runs in families and tends to develop when your hormone levels are fluctuating (puberty, pregnancy, menopause ). ...
Physical: hormones, timing and changes The process of rapid physical changes in adolescence is called puberty. It starts gradually, from around 11 years for girls and 13 years for boys. Th...
Management of puberty requires judgement. It may involve induction of puberty or delaying it if premature. Psychomotor retardation complicated by poor vision requires specialist h...
Gonadotrophin deficiency Gonadotrophin deficiency is difficult to assess in girls prior to puberty or in boys after age 3-6 months and before puberty. Follicle-stimulating h...
Young girls who have not yet started puberty can also experience soreness, irritation, redness and sometimes a vaginal discharge due to lack of oestrogen in the vaginal tissues.
More often than not, this goes away as they go through puberty. Therefore, it is particularly important for children and teenagers to be supported and helped as they grow up.
Blood in semen (haematospermia) is not uncommon and it can affect men of any age after puberty. However, the most common age group affected is men aged 30-40 years. More than 9 out of ever...
The outer ones are called the labia majora and are covered with pubic hair after puberty. The inner folds do not have hair and are called the labia minora. The mons pubis - the fatty bul...
Lichen sclerosus most commonly develops in women after the menopause, and, less commonly, girls who have not yet gone through puberty. Hormones, such as oestrogen and progesterone, are low in...