Routine screening by brain magnetic resonance imaging is not indicated in every girl with onset of puberty between the ages of 6 and 8 years

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4455-4461

  Pedicelli, Stefania ^a   Alessio, Paola ^a   Scirè, Giuseppe ^a   Cappa, Marco ^b   Cianfarani, Stefano ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; CENTRAL PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; CHILD; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY INCIDENTALOMA; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PUBERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; UTERUS; AGE DETERMINATION; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFANT; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY GLAND; PREVALENCE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84916629447     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2014-2702     Document Type: Article

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