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Premature Pubarche

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Pubertal maturation involves two associated processes: adrenarche due to adrenal androgen production and gonadarche linked to the reactivation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis.

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  1. Unité d’Endocrinologie-Gynécologie Pédiatriques, Departement de Pédiatrie, Hôpital Arnaud-de-Villeneuve, CHU Montpellier et Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

    Charles Sultan, Laura Gaspari & Françoise Paris

  2. Service de Chirurgie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Lapeyronie, CHU Montpellier et Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Nicolas Kalfa

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  1. Département Hormonologie Hôpital Lapeyronie CHU et Université Montpellier, Unité d’Endocrinologie et Gynécologie Pédiatriques, Département de Pédiatrie Hôpital Arnaud-de-Villeneuve CHU et Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Charles Sultan

  2. International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology, Pisa, Italy

    Andrea R. Genazzani

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Sultan, C., Gaspari, L., Kalfa, N., Paris, F. (2017). Premature Pubarche. In: Sultan, C., Genazzani, A. (eds) Frontiers in Gynecological Endocrinology. ISGE Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41433-1_5

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