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Reexamination of the Age Limit for Defining When Puberty Is Precocious in Girls in the United States: Implications for Evaluation and Treatment
Paul B. Kaplowitz, Sharon E. Oberfield and the Drug and Therapeutics and Executive Committees of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society
Pediatrics October 1999, 104 (4) 936-941; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.104.4.936
Paul B. Kaplowitz
From the *Department of Pediatrics, the Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; and the
Sharon E. Oberfield
‡Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York.

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Reexamination of the Age Limit for Defining When Puberty Is Precocious in Girls in the United States: Implications for Evaluation and Treatment
Paul B. Kaplowitz, Sharon E. Oberfield, the Drug and Therapeutics and Executive Committees of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society
Pediatrics Oct 1999, 104 (4) 936-941; DOI: 10.1542/peds.104.4.936
Reexamination of the Age Limit for Defining When Puberty Is Precocious in Girls in the United States: Implications for Evaluation and Treatment
Paul B. Kaplowitz, Sharon E. Oberfield, the Drug and Therapeutics and Executive Committees of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society
Pediatrics Oct 1999, 104 (4) 936-941; DOI: 10.1542/peds.104.4.936
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- Abstract
- HOW IS THE NORMAL AGE RANGE OF PUBERTY IN GIRLS DEFINED?
- WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE THAT PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY LEADS TO BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS?
- WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE THAT PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY COMPROMISES ADULT HEIGHT?
- WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE THAT TREATMENT OF GIRLS WITH PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY STARTING BETWEEN 6 AND 8 YEARS OF AGE IS BENEFICIAL?
- RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING CHILDREN NEEDING EVALUATION FOR EARLY PUBERTY
- SUMMARY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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