Precocious puberty: Update on secular trends, definitions, diagnosis, and treatment

Advances in Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue , 2004, Pages 37-62

  Kaplowitz, Paul ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TAMOXIFEN;

ABSCESS; BONE AGE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEIGHT; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MEAT; OBESITY; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; POULTRY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; REVIEW; STRESS; VAGINA BLEEDING; CHILD; FEMALE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS;

EID: 4644328885     PISSN: 00653101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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