Central precocious puberty: evaluation by neuroimaging
- 1. Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel)
- 2. Dept. of Pediatric Imaging, Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva (Israel)
- 3. Dept. of Radiology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON (Canada)
- 4. Div. of Endocrinology, Dept. of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON (Canada)
- 5. Inst. of Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva (Israel)
Description
To evaluate the incidence of abnormal intracranial findings in children with central precocious puberty, 62 children (51 girls, 11 boys) were examined by computerized tomography and/or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain. Forty-four had normal examinations; 18 (11 girls, 7 boys) showed intracranial pathologies, including hamartoma of the tuber cinereum (8 cases), parenchymal loss (3 cases), hypothalamicchiasmatic lesions (2 cases), lesions of the corpus callosum (2 cases), suprasellar cyst (1 case), and pineal cyst and mesiotemporal sclerosis (1 case each). Based on the correlation between the clinical and the imaging results of this series, the authors recommend MRI as the imaging method of choice in the investigation of precocious puberty. (orig.)
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Pediatric Radiology
- Journal Volume
- 25
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 7-11.
- ISSN
- 0301-0449
- CODEN
- PDRYA5
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 26069671
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Descriptors DEI
- BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MALFORMATIONS; NMR IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PATIENTS; PEDIATRICS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANIMALS; BODY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DISEASES; MAMMALS; MAN; MEDICINE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANS; PRIMATES; TOMOGRAPHY; VERTEBRATES