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Puberty is the time when your body grows from a child's to an adult's. During puberty, children's external genitalia begin development and show secondary sex characteristics. The normal age of puberty is between 7 and 13 for girls and 9 and 15 for boys. Some adolescents do not start their sexual development at the usual age. They do not show any signs of body changes. This is called delayed puberty. The delay in some cases represents a normal variation, but other causes are some kind of diseases, such as diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, kidney disease, cystic fibrosis, mumps, anemia, and genetic diseases. Tests such as hormone level tests and bone age X-ray test, even cranial CT or MRI and chromosomal analysis may help find the causes of delayed puberty. Treatment and prognosis of delayed puberty depend on the cause.
Delayed puberty is more common among boys. Usual symptoms in boys and girls are:
Children with the following conditions are at higher risk for delayed puberty:
The treatment for delayed puberty depends on its cause. Different cause has different protocol.
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Prognosis of delayed puberty depends on the cause of the disease. Outcome of patients with delayed puberty resulting from tumors is worse than outcomes from other causes.
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/print/sec23/ch271/ch271b.html
http://kidshealth.org/teen/sexual_health/changing_body/delayed_puberty.html
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