RT Journal
A1 SECKEL HG, SCOTT WW, BENDITT EP
T1 SIx examples of precocious sexual development
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1949
FD October 1
VO 78
IS 4
SP 484
OP 515
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030050499003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030050499003
AB A GENERAL discussion of the problems involved in precocious sexual development of children was presented by one of us (H. P. G. S.) in 1946.1 This publication and another one to follow are intended to amplify that general discussion with a presentation of 6 specific examples. The first of these publications deals with diagnostic and pathogenetic studies, while the second will be devoted to the aspects of growth and maturation in the same patients.2 From the beginning, it seems to be of paramount importance to recognize the borderline between pathologic "precocity" of sexual development and what may be termed physiologic "early" sexual development. A few observations on the latter group of children may be briefly recorded with a view to avoiding diagnostic pitfalls and the consequences of calling children abnormal who are exuberantly healthy.I. "EARLY" SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT 
    In normal boys "early" sexual development is rarer than in