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.