Central precocious puberty secondary to hypothalamic hamartoma
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Central precocious puberty secondary to hypothalamic hamartoma
Introduction Central precocious puberty (CPP) presenting at a very young age is likely to have an underlying pathology. One of the pathologies is hypothalamic hamartoma (HH), a non-neoplastic tumour-like lesion located at the floor of the third ventricle, near the tuber cinereum. Two young children with CPP due to HH without gelastic seizures or mental retardation were successfully managed and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1687-9856
DOI: 10.1186/1687-9856-2013-s1-p70