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Menstrual cycle pattern during the first gynaecological years in girls with precocious puberty following gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue treatment

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University of Messina, Messina-Gazzi, Italy

    Teresa Arrigo, Filippo De Luca, Lucia Marseglia & Giuseppe Crisafulli

  2. Department of Pediatrics, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

    Franco Antoniazzi

  3. Department of Pediatrics, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Fiorella Galluzzi

  4. Department of Pediatrics, University of Modena, Modena, Italy

    Lorenzo Iughetti

  5. Department of Pediatrics, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Anna Maria Pasquino

  6. Department of Pediatrics, University of Naples, Naples, Italy

    Maria Carolina Salerno

  7. Dipartimento di Scienze Pediatriche Mediche e Chirurgiche, Policlinico Universitario di Messina, Via Consolare Valeria, 98123, Messina-Gazzi, Italy

    Teresa Arrigo

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Arrigo, T., De Luca, F., Antoniazzi, F. et al. Menstrual cycle pattern during the first gynaecological years in girls with precocious puberty following gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue treatment. Eur J Pediatr 166, 73–74 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-006-0207-z

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