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PRECOCIOUS SEXUAL AND SOMATIC DEVELOPMENT IN BOYS DUE TO CONSTITUTIONAL AND ENDOCRINE FACTORS

PRECOCIOUS SEXUAL AND SOMATIC DEVELOPMENT IN BOYS DUE TO CONSTITUTIONAL AND ENDOCRINE FACTORS THE SOMATIC and sexual development of a person from infancy to adulthood consists in a series of transitions. The age at which certain phenomena of maturity usually make their appearance has been established for normal rates of development. However, it is recognized that considerable variation in the degree of development and time of appearance of these phenomena occurs in apparently normal persons. Occasionally, the time of appearance of certain of the manifestations of maturity may be so retarded or accelerated that the development of the person must be considered as distinctly abnormal. This report is concerned with pathological precocity, not with physiological "early" sexual development. Discussions of the different causes of precocious development have been well presented by different authors1; therefore problems in differential diagnosis will not be considered. This report concerns the clinical and laboratory findings exhibited by two brothers with precocious sexual and somatic development. Another brother, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American journal of diseases of children American Medical Association

PRECOCIOUS SEXUAL AND SOMATIC DEVELOPMENT IN BOYS DUE TO CONSTITUTIONAL AND ENDOCRINE FACTORS

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1951 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0096-8994
eISSN
1538-3628
DOI
10.1001/archpedi.1951.02040030188001
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Abstract

THE SOMATIC and sexual development of a person from infancy to adulthood consists in a series of transitions. The age at which certain phenomena of maturity usually make their appearance has been established for normal rates of development. However, it is recognized that considerable variation in the degree of development and time of appearance of these phenomena occurs in apparently normal persons. Occasionally, the time of appearance of certain of the manifestations of maturity may be so retarded or accelerated that the development of the person must be considered as distinctly abnormal. This report is concerned with pathological precocity, not with physiological "early" sexual development. Discussions of the different causes of precocious development have been well presented by different authors1; therefore problems in differential diagnosis will not be considered. This report concerns the clinical and laboratory findings exhibited by two brothers with precocious sexual and somatic development. Another brother,

Journal

American journal of diseases of childrenAmerican Medical Association

Published: Feb 1, 1951

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