Central precocious puberty due to hypothalamic hamartoma in a 7-month-old infant girl

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 583-585

  Rousso, I H ^a   Kourti, M ^a   Papandreou, D ^a   Tragiannidis, A ^a   Athanasiadou, F ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hypothalamic hamartoma; Precocious puberty

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; TRIPTORELIN;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMA; INFANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEOLYTIC AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUBERTY, DELAYED; TRIPTORELIN;

EID: 41049111768     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-007-0515-y     Document Type: Article

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