[Isolated breast prematurity in young girls]

Arch Fr Pediatr. 1983 Aug-Sep;40(7):549-52.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The clinical and follow-up data of the isolated premature thelarche are reviewed in a series of 61 girls aged 6 months to 6 years. Transitory increase of plasma estrogens was observed in some cases. The results of LHRH test were similar to those from normal girls of the same age. Premature thelarche could be a normal variant in girls, related with the physiologic unsteadiness of the prepubertal female pituitary-gonadal axis.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Age Determination by Skeleton
  • Breast / growth & development*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Estradiol / blood
  • Female
  • Follicle Stimulating Hormone / blood
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Luteinizing Hormone / blood

Substances

  • Estradiol
  • Luteinizing Hormone
  • Follicle Stimulating Hormone