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      Precocious puberty in girls adopted from developing countries.

      Archives of Disease in Childhood
      Adoption, Analysis of Variance, Body Height, Child, Child, Preschool, Developing Countries, Female, Humans, Leuprolide, therapeutic use, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Puberty, Precocious, drug therapy, etiology, psychology

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          Nineteen girls adopted from developing countries were referred for signs of idiopathic precocious puberty. After adoption, the catch up in linear and weight growth, together with improved nutritional and psychological conditions, may trigger the onset of puberty. Precocious puberty is a frequent and unnatural event in these girls. Treatment with gonadotrophin releasing analogues is indicated in patients diagnosed early, and when height prediction is poor.

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