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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • INTRODUCTION
  • NORMAL PUBERTY FOR GIRLS (IT’S OCCURRING EARLIER!): A basis for the Definition of Abnormal Puberty
  • Onset of Normal Pubertal Landmarks
  • Determinants of Normal Pubertal Growth
  • Genetic Influences of Growth
  • Hormonal Determinants of Growth (Some gene mediated)
  • Definition of Abnormal Puberty
  • PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY
  • Overview
  • Central Precocious Puberty
  • Contemporary Issues for Management of CPP
  • Iatrogenic sexual precocity
  • Premature Thelarche
  • Premature Menarche
  • Contrasexual precocity
  • DELAYED PUBERTY
  • An Overview of Delays within the H-P-O Circuit (Delays of Secondary Sexual Development and Menarche)
  • Total 141 57 43
  • DISORDERS IDENTIFIED IN PATIENTS WITH EITHER DELAYED PUBERTY OR MENARCHE
  • Hypogonadism
  • Hypergonadotropic Hypogonadism
  • Turner Syndrome
  • Normal Chromosomes
  • Molecular Findings
  • Contemporary Issues for Management
  • Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
  • Constitutional delay
  • Acquired Abnormalities
  • Congenital Abnormalities
  • Molecular Findings
  • Contemporary Issues for Management
  • Eugonadism
  • Anatomic Abnormalities
  • Molecular Findings
  • Contemporary Issues for Management
  • Chronic Anovulation
  • Intersex Disorders
  • Molecular Findings
  • Contemporary Issues for Management
  • Acknowledgement