Acta Unio Int Contra Cancrum
There is an alarming increase in the use of e-cigarettes among children and young people with rates exceeding adult use in many countries, Dr Ruediger Krech, WHO Director for Health Promotion
The main clinical differential diagnosis in childhood is bruising caused by child abuse, potentially distinguishing features of which include lesions located in areas not exposed to accidental trauma (e.g., backs of the legs or abdomen), peculiar morphology (e.g., imprints caused by fingers, the dental arch, belts, etc.), and the time course of lesion appearance.4,5 In rarer cases extensive bruising may constitute the initial manifestation of coagulopathies that can be detected by laboratory analyses
However, they found a direct relationship between the concentration of microplastics and the secretion of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) cytokines, compared to the control samples 14