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Symptom: Delayed puberty
Introduction: Delayed puberty
Delayed puberty: A lack of sexual maturation in an adolescent at an age significantly higher than the average age that child of that epidemiology attains puberty. See free access online books about Delayed puberty below. See detailed information below for a list of 184 causes of Delayed puberty, including diseases and drug side effect causes.
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Causes of Delayed puberty:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Delayed puberty.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Constitutional delay of growth and development
- Crohn's disease
- Anorexia
- Bulimia nervosa
- Low body weight (see Weight loss)
- Excessive exercise (see Exercise symptoms)
- Hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism
- Central nervous system tumours (see Brain tumor)
- Radiation therapy
- Head trauma
- Pituitary adenoma (type of Adenoma)
- Kallman's syndrome
- Adrenal failure
- Cytotoxic drugs
- Gonadal dysgenesis
- Turner's Syndrome (in females)
- Autoimmune ovarian failure (in females)
- Prader-Willi Syndrome (in males)
- Lack of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone
- Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Lyndi's syndrome
- Craniopharyngioma (type of Brain cancer)
- Chromophobe adenoma
- Prolactinoma
- Optic chiasma glioma
- Meningioma
- Trauma
- Vascular lesions
- Granulomas
See full list of 184 causes of Delayed puberty
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Delayed puberty: Multiple Symptom Checker
Listed below are some combinations of symptoms associated with Delayed puberty, as listed in our database. Visit the Multiple Symptoms Checker, to add and remove symptoms and research your condition.
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Multiple Symptom Checker Combinations
- Delayed puberty and Puberty symptoms (80 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Head symptoms (71 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Body symptoms (66 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Growth symptoms (63 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Infant symptoms (62 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Face symptoms (61 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Poor growth (61 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Sexual symptoms (54 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Behavioral symptoms (51 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Personality symptoms (51 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Short stature (46 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Nerve symptoms (43 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Mental problems (43 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Muscle symptoms (42 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Mental retardation (41 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Sensations (40 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Weight symptoms (38 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Muscle weakness (37 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Mouth symptoms (37 causes)
- Delayed puberty and Swelling symptoms (37 causes)
See full list of 1187 Multiple Symptom Checker combinations related to Delayed puberty
Home Diagnostic Testing and Delayed puberty
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Causes of General Symptom Types
Research the causes of these more general types of symptom:
- Puberty symptoms (101 causes)
Causes of Similar Symptoms to Delayed puberty
Research the causes of these symptoms that are similar to, or related to, the symptom Delayed puberty:
- Delayed menstruation
- Menarche
Diagnostic Guides for Delayed puberty
Medical Books Excerpts Read excerpts from published book sections related to Delayed puberty from the following published medical books for more detailed information about Delayed puberty. Free access (no registration): read all online diagnostic book sections about Delayed puberty
Copyright notice for book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
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Causes of Delayed puberty listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible
causes of Delayed puberty as a symptom include:
- Adiposogenital dystrophy
- Anorexia nervosa
- Constitutional delay of growth and puberty
- Fabry's disease
- Gonadal dysgenesis (male)
- Hypogonadism
- Hypopituitarism
- Hypothyroidism, congenital
- Kallmann syndrome
- Klinefelter syndrome
- Malabsorption syndrome
- Mixed gonadal dysgenesis
- Noonan's syndrome
- Sickle cell disease
- Turner's syndrome
- Ulnar-mammary syndrome of Pallister
See full list of 184
causes of Delayed puberty
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Definitions of Delayed puberty:
Delayed puberty: lack of any signs of puberty by age 14 years in either sex.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Unusually late sexual maturity.
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Detailed list of causes of Delayed puberty
The list below shows some of the causes of Delayed puberty mentioned in various sources:
- 46,XX Gonadal dysgenesis epibulbar dermoid - delayed puberty
- Addison's disease
- Adiposogenital dystrophy
- Adrenal failure
- Adrenal hypoplasia congenital, X-linked - delayed puberty
See full list of 184 causes of Delayed puberty
How Common are these Causes of Delayed puberty?
This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Delayed puberty. Of the 184 causes of Delayed puberty that we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
- 1 causes are "very common" diseases
- 3 causes are "common" diseases
- 6 causes are "uncommon" diseases
- 1 causes are "rare" diseases
- 9 causes are "very rare" diseases
- 166 causes have no prevalence information.
See the analysis of the prevalence of 184
causes of Delayed puberty
Conditions listing symptoms: Delayed puberty:
The following list of conditions have 'Delayed puberty' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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Causes of Delayed puberty Based on Risk Factors
This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Delayed puberty based
on whether certain risk factors apply to the patient:
What are the alternative names for Delayed puberty:
Pubertal delay, Puberty delay
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Classifications of Delayed puberty:
Medical Conditions associated with Delayed puberty:
Puberty symptoms (102 causes)
Symptoms related to Delayed puberty:
Delayed menstruation, Menarche
Delayed puberty as a disease:
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