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Puberty, Precocious

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Development of SEXUAL MATURATION in boys and girls at a chronological age that is 2.5 standard deviations below the mean age at onset of PUBERTY in the population. This early maturation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis results in sexual precocity, elevated serum levels of GONADOTROPINS and GONADAL STEROID HORMONES such as ESTRADIOL and TESTOSTERONE.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.10340, 1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10340
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 12 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: pubertas praecox. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 2)

Precocious puberty in tamoxifen-treated cockerels: hypothalamic gonadotrophin-releasing hormone-I and plasma luteinising hormone, prolactin, growth hormone and testosterone, 1993

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/4/195
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1993. Part 2.

Dates: 1993
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Roslin Institute