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Endocrine Disturbances of Puberty

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Female psychosexual maturation is the culmination of events that express themselves through puberty, menarche, and nubility. It is the purpose of this chapter to review the endocrine abnormalities of puberty. To do this, a review of intrauterine pituitary-ovarian function, the normal mechanism of puberty, and clinical problems of sexual precocity and delayed sexual maturation will be presented.

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  1. Alvin F. Goldfarb
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Obstetric and Gynecolgy, USA

    J. Patrick Lavery (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director) (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director)

  2. Division of Maternal-Medicine, University of Louisville, USA

    J. Patrick Lavery (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director) (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director)

  3. Teenage Parent Program, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

    J. Patrick Lavery (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director) (Associate Professor, Director, Medical Director)

  4. Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetric and Gynecolgy, USA

    Joseph S. Sanfilippo (Associate Professor, Co-Director) (Associate Professor, Co-Director)

  5. Pediatric Adolescent Gynecolgy, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

    Joseph S. Sanfilippo (Associate Professor, Co-Director) (Associate Professor, Co-Director)

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Goldfarb, A.F. (1985). Endocrine Disturbances of Puberty. In: Lavery, J.P., Sanfilippo, J.S. (eds) Pediatric and Adolescent Obstetrics and Gynecology. Clinical Perspective in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5064-7_14

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