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SUBMITTER: Aversa T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6245937 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aversa Tommaso T Zirilli Giuseppina G Corica Domenico D De Luca Filippo F Wasniewska Malgorzata M
Italian journal of pediatrics 20181119 1
Aim of this survey is to review the few available literature data on pathophysiologic and clinical aspects of pubertal development in boys with McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS). On the basis of such analysis, we concluded that:1) peripheral precocious puberty (PPP) is significantly more infrequent in boys than in girls; 2) the most common testicular abnormality at MAS presentation is macroorchidism, that may be either monolateral or bilateral; 3) macroorchidism is not always associated with clinic ...[more]