Clinical Management and Therapy of Precocious Puberty in the Sapienza University Pediatrics Hospital of Rome, Italy

• Main Authors: Ginevra Micangeli (Author), Roberto Paparella (Author), Francesca Tarani (Author), Michela Menghi (Author), Giampiero Ferraguti (Author), Francesco Carlomagno (Author), Matteo Spaziani (Author), Ida Pucarelli (Author), Antonio Greco (Author), Marco Fiore (Author), Luigi Tarani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Puberty identifies the transition from childhood to adulthood. Precocious puberty is the onset of signs of pubertal development before age eight in girls and before age nine in boys, it has an incidence of 1/5000-1/10,000 with an F:M ratio ranging from 3:1 to 20:1. Precocious puberty can be divided...