Troubled teens:  periods, pimples and pain — YRD

Troubled teens:  periods, pimples and pain (2577)

Amy Mellor 1
  1. Mater Health Services, Eve Health, Coorparoo, QLD, Australia

Periods:

- heavy menstrual bleeding in the adolescent

- menstruation in specific populations, eg.  adolescents with a disability, the anti-coagulated adolescent

 

Pimples:

- polycystic ovarian syndrome in the adolescent

- other causes of androgen excess in the adolescent

 

Pain:

- primary dysmenorrhoea versus endometriosis in the adolescent population

 

Pluses and perils:

-  adolescence in the modern age.