Early Puberty Latest Findings, Diagnosis, Treatment, Long-term Outco
This book focuses on the state of the art in fully grasping precocious puberty and its consequences, incorporating advances in the areas of endocrinology, genetics, imaging and therapeutics to offer an indispensable tool for all physicians interested in t
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Early Puberty Latest Findings, Diagnosis, Treatment, Long-term Outcome
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Early Puberty
Claire Bouvattier • Catherine Pienkowski Editors
Early Puberty Latest Findings, Diagnosis, Treatment, Long-term Outcome
Editors Claire Bouvattier Le Kremlin-Bicêtre France
Catherine Pienkowski Toulouse CX 09 France
Translated from the original French edition ‘Puberté précoce’ ©Springer, Paris, 2014; ISBN 978-2-8178-0520-7 ISBN 978-2-8178-0542-9 ISBN 978-2-8178-0543-6 DOI 10.1007/978-2-8178-0543-6
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Preface
The improvement of living conditions over the centuries shows that the limiting factor in the gradual increase in the height of man is the secular advance of the age of puberty. Puberty is an adaptive maturation phenomenon influenced by many different signals. This book addresses the historical and epidemiological data on pubertal changes in girls and boys. The scientific knowledge and progress in areas such as environmental influence and genetic mechanism are largely developed. Specific, but not uncommon, frequent pediatric conditions such as adopted children, small for gestational age children, or children treated with radiotherapy will be useful to physicians. The main line between the different chapters is to give useful tools to be used in daily practice. A better knowledge of the pathophysiological mechanisms of puberty will allow the reader to learn how to adjust diagnosis and therapy and how to evaluate the long-term management of precocious puberty. Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Toulouse, France
Claire Bouvattier Catherine Pienkowski
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Contents
1 Current Findings in Epidemiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audrey Cartault, Thomas Ed
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