Cranial MRI scans are indicated in all girls with central precocious puberty

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 414-417

  Ng, S M ^a   Kumar, Y ^a   Cody, D ^a   Smith, C S ^a   Didi, M ^a  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BONE AGE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE OF ONSET; ARACHNOID CYSTS; ASTROCYTOMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERATOMA;

EID: 0038671979     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.88.5.414     Document Type: Article

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