Isolated premature pubarche: Ultrasonographic and color Doppler analysis - A longitudinal study

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 3148-3154

  Battaglia, Cesare ^a,b   Regnani, Giorgia ^a,b   Mancini, Fulvia ^a,b   Iughetti, Lorenzo ^a,b   Bernasconi, Sergio ^a,b   Volpe, Annibale ^a,b   Flamigni, Carlo ^a,b   Venturoli, Stefano ^a,b  

^a Reproductive Medicine Unit   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BONE MATURATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY; TALL STATURE;

ARTERIES; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HAIR; HORMONES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; OVARY; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; PULSE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UTERUS;

EID: 0036316967     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.87.7.3148     Document Type: Article

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