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Chapter 4 - Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E89)»Disorders of other endocrine glands (E20-E35)»Other hyperfunction of pituitary gland (E22.8)

E22.8

Other hyperfunction of pituitary gland

Related indications (MeSH) (1)

Puberty, Precocious21 drugs (15 approved, 6 experimental)

Development of SEXUAL MATURATION in boys and girls at a chronological age that is 2.5 standard deviations below the mean age at onset of PUBERTY in the population. This early maturation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis results in sexual precocity, elevated serum levels of GONADOTROPINS and GONADAL STEROID HORMONES such as ESTRADIOL and TESTOSTERONE.