Premature thelarche and central precocious puberty: The relationship between clinical presentation and the gonadotropin response to luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 474-479

  Pescovitz, Ora Hirsch ^a,b   Hench, Karen D ^a   Barnes, Kevin M ^a   Loriaux, D Lynn ^a   Cutler, Gordon B ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; FEMALE; GONADORELIN NEURON; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY;

BREAST; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPINS; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS;

EID: 0023764561     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem-67-3-474     Document Type: Article

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