title: Precocious puberty in girls.
abstract: Precocious puberty in girls can be due to number of factors of which idiopathic central precocious puberty is the most common etiology. Here, we describe 3 cases of precocious puberty where the first case had premature thelarche in the background history of mother with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, cases 2 and 3 had ovarian tumours with heterogeneity in presentation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Sachin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chittwar
authors.lastname: Shivprakash
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Ammini
keywords: Precocious puberty; girls; idiopathic; ovarian tumours
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