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Maria Tufano1, Daniele Ciofi2, Antonella Amendolea3
1Pediatric Unit, Mugello Hospital, Borgo San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy.
Abstract:
McCune-Albright syndrome is a rare and challenging congenital sporadic disease involving the skin and skeletal and endocrine systems with a prevalence ranges from one in 100,000 to 1,000,000. In addition to the classical triad of fibrous dysplasia of bone, café au lait pigmented skin lesions and precocious puberty, other multiple endocrinological features, including hyperthyroidism, growth hormone excess, hypercortisolism, and hypophosphatemic rickets, have been reported. A brief review of the syndrome in children is here reported.
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