Etiological Spectrum of Precocious Puberty: Data from Northwest India

Indian Pediatr. 2020 Jan 15;57(1):63-64.

Abstract

We retrospectively analyzed clinic records of 55 children (36 girls) with precocious puberty. Majority (34, 62%) had central precocious puberty, out of which 19 were idiopathic. Peripheral precocious puberty was seen in 14 children. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia was the commonest cause of peripheral precocious puberty (6, 42.8%).

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital / complications
  • Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital / epidemiology
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Indien
  • Male
  • Puberty, Precocious / epidemiology*
  • Puberty, Precocious / etiology*
  • Retrospective Studies