The term premature pubarche is given to conditions in which there is precocious growth of sexual hair (pubes and axillary hair) without any other symptoms of precocious puberty, i. e. without development of the genitals and, in girls, without growth of the breasts. Girls do not become virilized as in the case of the adrenogenital syndrome.
The series of cases comprises 17 patients, 12 girls and 5 boys. The symptoms in the former were observed before the age of 8, and in the latter before the age of 9 years. The patients were from the Dronning Louises Børnehospital (children's hospital, Copenhagen), the Paediatric Department of the University Hospital, Copenhagen, and 5 homes for the mentally defective: Andersvænge, Brejning, Ebberødgård, Ribe and Rødbygård.
Twelve of the patients had severe cerebral disorder, they were all mentally retarded, seven had epilepsy and seven spastic pareses. Four were blind, two had a coloboma of
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