Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Part 1 Introduction: genetics of sexual differentiation; normal growth and development of the gentalia in infancy and childhood; normal pubertal development; gynecologic examination of the adolescent. Part 2 The prepubertal child: congenital defects of the external genitalia in the newborn and prepubertal child; surgical management of genital ambiguity; psychological aspects of disorders of sexual differentiation; trauma to the vulva and vagina; vulvar disease in the prepubertal child; vaginal discharge and vaginal bleeding in childhood; precociuos puberty. Part 3 The adolescent: the menstrual cycle; adolescent amenorrhea; abnormal uterine bleeding; dysmenorrhea; premenstrual syndrome; hirsutism in the pediatric or adolescent patient; pelvic pain in children and adolescents; sexually transmitted disease; uterovaginal anomalies; adolescent sexuality; adolescent contraception. Part 4 Tumors of the genital tract in childhood and adolescence: tumors of the vulva; tumors of the vagina and cervix in the child and adolescent; tumors of the uterus and gestational trophoblastic disease; the ovary. Part 5 Other considerations: disorders of the breast; child sexual abuse; gynecological care for the mentally handicapped individual.