Sexual precocity: sex incidence and aetiology.

Arch Dis Child

Endocrine Unit, Cobbold Laboratories, Middlesex Hospital, London.

Published: February 1994

The aetiology of 197 girls and 16 boys presenting with sexual precocity was reviewed. Ninety one girls and four boys had central precocious puberty (M:F 23:1); a cause was identified in all the boys but in only six girls. All boys with precocious puberty need detailed investigation; in girls investigation should be based on clinical findings, particularly the consonance of puberty.

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