Girls with gonadotrophin-dependent precocious puberty: Do they all deserve neuroimaging?

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 843-844

  Christoforidis, Athanasios ^a   Stanhope, Richard ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 27844574262     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPEM.2005.18.9.843     Document Type: Note

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