Precocious thelarche as key sign of precocious central puberty

Authors:

Fernández Fernández R^a, Arroyo Úbeda R^b, López Herranz C^c

Reference of this article.:

Fernández Fernández R, Arroyo Úbeda R, López Herranz C. Telarquia precoz como signo guía de pubertad precoz central. Rev Pediatr Aten Primaria. 2006;8:621-6.

Published in Internet: 31/12/2006

Abstract:

The precocious thelarche can be either a benign condition without clinical significance or the beginning of a real precocious puberty. We try to revise, in this article, the different causes of precocious puberty, emphasizing the tumours of the central nervous system as the aetiology of this condition, especially after the introduction of image techniques as the magnetic resonance. In the clinical case we present, it is remarkable the early age the puberty is developed. In these cases, it is always obligatory to rule out the tumour aetiology being the hypothalamus hamartoma one of the most frequent causes.

Keywords: Central precocious puberty. Precocious thelarche. Hypothalamus hamartoma.

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