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American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 100, 48-62, Copyright © 1967 by American Roentgen Ray Society

PRECOCIOUS SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT

ROENTGENOGRAPHIC ASPECTS

HERMAN GROSSMAN M.D.1 and MARIA NEW M.D.1

1 From the Departments of Radiology and Pediatrics, Cornell University Medical College and The New York Hospital, New York, New York

Roentgenographic methods have been used to demonstrate causes of precocious sexual development. Included are abnormalities of the hypothalamus, adrenal gland, gonads, and extraglandular neoplasms such as teratorna and hepatoma. The latter two tumors may secrete androgenic or gonadotropic hormones.

Untreated juvenile hypothyroidism in

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girls has occasionally been associated with sexual precocity and an enlarged sella turcica. The sella returns to normal on prolonged thyroid therapy.

McCune-Albright syndrome is characterized by sexual precocity in females, associated with café au lait spots and disseminated fibrous dysplasia.


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