Gynecological issues in children and adolescents seen at rare-disease referral centers: an observational retrospective cohort study.

Background: The current development of gynecology services for children and adolescents seeks to meet needs both in the overall population and in patients with rare diseases. In France, the referral center for rare gynecological diseases specializes in four major types of conditions, namely, uterovaginal malformations, hereditary hemorrhagic diseases, rare benign breast diseases, and gynecological repercussions of rare chronic diseases.

Objective: To describe consecutive patients who had a first visit in 2018-2023 at the referral center for rare gynecological diseases at the Necker Pediatric University Hospital in Paris, France, and who were diagnosed with a condition in any of the four categories listed above.

"Child-Adult" Transition - Adolescence: When Illness Appears….

Considering the patient's transition from child to adolescent to adult and its psychological aspects in endocrinology and diabetology, it is necessary to recall the child's psycho-affective development when he enters adolescence. Indeed, adolescence appears paradigmatic of the "child-adult" transition; it is a specific and decisive psychic process which allows the child to become an adult, that is to say autonomous and subject to his desire. In our paper, we study the resonance of a chronic disease in young people; type 1 diabetes is chosen.

And god created woman? The link between female sexuality and the mother-daughter relationship in Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome in adolescents.

The authors' clinical experience with young girls with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), who are facing the often hastily suggested, and accepted, surgical treatment of vaginal reconstruction brings new light to the question of female sexuality and its specific modes of access: its traumatic aspects, the mother-daughter conflict of ambivalence and the associated risk of depression, as well as the importance of the relational factor in the construction of bodily interiority.