Female Puberty: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians

✍ Scribed by Jennifer E. Dietrich (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 166
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Female Puberty: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians is a practical reference, covering the full range of issues related to pubertal development. Developed to answer pointed clinical questions and to provide a thorough review of the literature, the book covers both the basics and the complexities of puberty, encompassing psychosocial development to pubertal nuances in highly specialized populations. Comprehensive in scope, this title offers concepts that are concisely conveyed and chapters that complement each other well. Complex subjects such as details of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis are covered in a readily understandable manner and bullet points throughout the text serve as helpful reminders to the reader. An invaluable contribution to the literature, Female Puberty: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians will be of great interest to all health providers concerned with female reproductive health – including obstetrician gynecologists, reproductive endocrine specialists, pediatricians, pediatric specialists, family practitioners and allied health professionals.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
History and Trends of Pubertal Development in Females....Pages 1-6
Normal Pubertal Physiology in Females....Pages 7-30
Genetics of Puberty....Pages 31-41
Psychology and Neurobiology of Puberty....Pages 43-60
Fetal and Neonatal Puberty....Pages 61-69
Central Precocious Puberty....Pages 71-78
Peripheral Precocious Puberty....Pages 79-88
Isolated Precocious Puberty....Pages 89-95
Constitutional Delay of Puberty....Pages 97-101
Hormonal Causes of Delayed Puberty....Pages 103-113
Anatomic Causes for Delayed Puberty....Pages 115-128
Genetic Causes of Delayed Puberty....Pages 129-135
Consideration of Pubertal Events Among Patients with Disorders of Sexual Differentiation....Pages 137-147
Puberty in Developmentally Delayed or Physically Challenged Patients....Pages 149-154
Back Matter....Pages 155-159

✦ Subjects

Gynecology; Reproductive Medicine; Endocrinology