Open AccessPrecocious Puberty- A Case Report
Author(s) -
Krishna Shah,
N Begum Laz,
AB Siddique,
Faisal Ahmed
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
taj
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2408-8854
pISSN - 1019-8555
DOI - 10.3329/taj.v21i1.3227
Subject(s) - precocious puberty , girl , central precocious puberty , secondary sex characteristic , medicine , endocrinology , hormone , psychology , developmental psychology
Appearance of secondary sexual development before the age of 9 in a male child and before the age of 7 in a female child is called precocious puberty. When the cause of precocious puberty is premature activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, it is called central or complete precocious puberty, if ectopic gonadotrophin secretion occurs in boys or autonomous sex steroid secretion occurs in either sex it is called incomplete precocious puberty. |Here we are reporting a 5 year old girl with central precocious puberty. doi: 10.3329/taj.v21i1.3227 TAJ 2008; 21(1): 83-86