Age of Onset
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Familial small cell carcinoma of the ovary.

13 Dec 2009 Ovarian tumors have a low incidence in childhood, accounting for 1% of malignancies within the ages of 0-17 years. Small cell carcinoma of the ovary is a rare histology and historically has a poor prognosis. We report a case of an 11-year-old female ... Read more...

Vascular factors and markers of inflammation in offspring with a parental history of late-onset Alzheimer disease.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: Alzheimer disease (AD) is a complex disorder with a strong heritable component. Amyloid pathology, vascular factors, and inflammation are postulated to be involved in its pathogenesis, but causality has not been established unequivocally. ... Read more...

Epilepsy in later life.

29 Sep 2009 Epilepsy is most likely to develop in later life. The burden of this disorder on health-care resources will rise further as the world's population continues to age. Making a secure diagnosis can be challenging because the clinical manifestations of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Age of Onset'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Familial small cell carcinoma of the ovary. 13 Dec 2009
• Vascular factors and markers of inflammation in offspring with a parental history of late-onset Alzheimer disease. 30 Oct 2009
• Yeast infections--human genetics on the rise. 27 Oct 2009
• Epilepsy in later life. 29 Sep 2009
• Lyme disease serology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 29 Sep 2009
• Association of pre-onset cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use with age at onset of prodrome and age at onset of psychosis in first-episode patients. 29 Sep 2009
• Childhood-onset hemiatrophy caused by unilateral morphea. 29 Sep 2009
• Practical guidelines for evaluation of loose anagen hair syndrome. 29 Sep 2009
• The age at which cancer occurs-an overlooked parameter! 29 Sep 2009
• Association of ideomotor apraxia with frontal gray matter volume loss in corticobasal syndrome. 29 Sep 2009
• Implication of sex and SORL1 variants in italian patients with Alzheimer disease. 29 Sep 2009
• Codistribution of amyloid beta plaques and spongiform degeneration in familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with the E200K-129M haplotype. 29 Sep 2009
• Increasing incidence of elderly onset patients with myasthenia gravis in a local area of Japan. 29 Sep 2009
• Cavernous angioma: a clinical study of 35 cases with review of the literature. 29 Sep 2009
• Interhemispheric propagation of seizures in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. 28 Sep 2009
• [Pompe's disease. Part II. Treatment strategies and enzyme replacement] 28 Sep 2009
• Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy 25 years after seizure onset: a population-based study. 27 Sep 2009
• Predictors of early adult outcomes in pediatric-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder. 26 Sep 2009
• Familial factors do not confound the association between birth weight and childhood asthma. 26 Sep 2009
• Normal and mutant HTT interact to affect clinical severity and progression in Huntington disease. 21 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Age of Onset'

Definition: The age or period of life at which a disease or the initial symptoms or manifestations of a disease appear in an individual.

Descriptor UI: D017668

Alternative terms: Age of Onset; Onset Age; Late-Onset Disorders; Disorder, Late-Onset; Disorders, Late-Onset; Late Onset Disorders; Late-Onset Disorder;

Tree Number: N05.715.350.075.100; N06.850.490.250.100;

History Note: 94

Technical Notes: IM: GEN only; not for routine age of onset of dis in individual case reports; coord NIM with disease /epidemiol (IM), as "age of onset in peptic ulcer" = AGE OF ONSET (NIM) + PEPTIC ULCER /epidemiol (IM); no qualif