IMPROVEMENT OF ADULT HEIGHT PROGNOSIS IN PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY BY CYPROTERONE ACETATE |
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Authors: | EMILIO BOSSI,ROLF P. ZURBRÜ GG,ETIENNE E. JOSS |
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Affiliation: | Endocrine Unit of the Department of Paediatrics, University of Berm, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | Three girls and one boy with idiopathic precocious puberty and one boy with operated suprasellar hamartoma and progressing precocious puberty were treated with Cyproterone acetate for periods ranging from 15 months to 4 years and 6 months. In all children, the signs of puberty were reduced. Height velocity, as related to bone age, was increased, as was the ratio of height age increment to bone age increment. An improvement of adult height prognosis in precocious puberty has been achieved by Cyproterone acetate. |
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Keywords: | Precocious puberty Cyproterone acetate adult height prognosis height velocity skeletal maturation |
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