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Low prevalence of organic pathology in a predominantly black population with premature adrenarche: need to stratify definitions and screening protocols

BACKGROUND: Premature adrenarche has been described as clinical and biochemical hyperandrogenism before the age of 8 years in girls and 9 years in boys and absence of signs of true puberty. Adrenal pathology such as adrenal tumors or non-classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (NCCAH) and exogenous...

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Autores principales: Foster, Christy, Diaz-Thomas, Alicia, Lahoti, Amit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7061481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32165891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13633-020-0075-8