A rare case of central precocious puberty due to hypothalamic hamartoma diagnosed in utero

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-240

  Acharya, Shrikrishna V ^a   Gopal, Raju A ^a   Menon, Padma S ^a   Bandgar, Tushar R ^a   Shah, Nalini S ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RATE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMA; INFANT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PENIS; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PUBERTY; SCROTUM; SEXUAL MATURATION; SEXUAL MATURITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT GAIN; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; INFANT; MALE; PREGNANCY; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERUS;

EID: 77953923764     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP09193.CR     Document Type: Article

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