The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 156, Issue 3 , Pages 466-471, March 2010

Premature Thelarche: Age at Presentation Affects Clinical Course but Not Clinical Characteristics or Risk to Progress to Precocious Puberty

  • Liat de Vries, MD

      Affiliations

    • Jesse Z and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Anat Guz-Mark, MD

      Affiliations

    • Jesse Z and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
    • ,
  • Liora Lazar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Jesse Z and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Adi Reches, MD

      Affiliations

    • Jesse Z and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
    • ,
  • Moshe Phillip, MD

      Affiliations

    • Jesse Z and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Moshe Phillip, MD, Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva 49202, Israel.

Received 1 July 2009; received in revised form 31 August 2009; accepted 25 September 2009. published online 16 November 2009.

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 This work was performed in partial fulfillment of the MD thesis (A.G.-M.) requirements of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0022-3476(09)00986-X

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.09.071

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 156, Issue 3 , Pages 466-471, March 2010

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