Self-Assessment Questions

28. Precocious puberty

• What is the difference between complete or true sexual precocity and incomplete or peripheral sexual precocity?

  Show Answer

  Correct answer:
  Complete or true sexual precocity is precocious puberty resulting from elevated pituitary gonadotropins, whereas, incomplete or peripheral sexual precocity is precocious puberty resulting from primary diseases of the gonads or adrenals.