6 - Abnormal puberty

Ellen Lancon Connor; Lauren A. Kanner

doi:10.1016/B978-0-443-10512-8.00015-1

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6 - Abnormal puberty

Ellen Lancon Connor and Lauren A. Kanner

NASPAG's Principles & Practice of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, pp.47-58

Elsevier Inc

2024

DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-10512-8.00015-1

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Abstract

Abnormal pubertal processes in the child may be classified as causing precocious or delayed puberty. Precocity should be evaluated to determine whether timing, tempo, or both are affected. Central precocity refers to early or rapid onset of hypothalamic and brain-driven pubertal changes, whereas peripheral sexual precocity refers to pubertal changes from elevation of sex steroids that are not directed by the hypothalamus and pituitary. Delayed puberty can be classified as abnormalities arising from congenital anatomic abnormalities, from the brain, from chronic disease, or from the gonads.

Delayed puberty

hypergonadotropic hypogonadism

hypogonadotropic hypogonadism

Kallmann syndrome

McCune-Albright syndrome

MKRN3

precocious puberty

premature menarche

Turner syndrome

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Title: Subtitle: 6 - Abnormal puberty
Creators: Ellen Lancon Connor
Lauren A. Kanner
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: NASPAG's Principles & Practice of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, pp.47-58
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-10512-8.00015-1
Publisher: Elsevier Inc
Language: English
Date published: 2024
Academic Unit: Endocrinology and Diabetes; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
Record Identifier: 9984642759402771

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