Peripheral precocious puberty: Causes and current management

Hormone Research

Volumn 71, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 64-67

  Eugster, Erica A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Familial male limited precocious puberty; McCune Albright syndrome; Precocious puberty

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; ANTIANDROGEN; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; BICALUTAMIDE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LETROZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; SPIRONOLACTONE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOLACTONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ADRENAL GLAND; ALBRIGHT SYNDROME; BONE AGE; CAFE AU LAIT SPOT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DISORDERS OF HORMONE METABOLISM; DRUG SAFETY; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONAD; GRANULOSA CELL TUMOR; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HUMAN; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; OVARY CYST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORSION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VAGINA BLEEDING; VIRILIZATION;

FIBROUS DYSPLASIA, POLYOSTOTIC; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS;

EID: 58549098528     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000178041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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