Pathological and incidental findings on brain MRI in a single-center study of 229 consecutive girls with early or precocious puberty

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mogensen, Signe Sloth ^a   Aksglaede, Lise ^a   Mouritsen, Annette ^a   Sørensen, Kaspar ^a   Main, Katharina M ^a   Gideon, Peter ^a   Juul, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ARACHNOID CYST; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PONTINE TUMOR; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS;

EID: 84855815178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029829     Document Type: Article

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