Precocious menstruation in hypothyroidism.
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C.v.B. is a girl who was born of psychopathic criminal and, in all probability, mentally subnormal parents. Her mental and physical development was backward from birth; at the age of 4 she could walk but did not speak. Earlier data are lacking. She stayed in several children's homes, and from the age of 9 she was in the Institution for Mentally Deficient Children in Noordwijk. At the age of 1 1i years she was admitted to the University Gynaecological Department because of torsion of a cystic
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Archives of disease in childhood
دوره 37 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1962