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Dr. found 1 pubic hair on 8 yr old daughter, sent her for hand/wrist xray. came back as bones of 10-11 yr old. should i be worried? what is this?

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Dr. Michael Gabor answered

Specializes in Diagnostic Radiology

Bone Age: With a chronological age of 8, and "bone age"(degree of skeletal maturity vs. mean of age-matched normals) of 10-11 years, and a standard deviation of about 10 months, your daughter's bone age is advanced about 3 standard deviations above the mean for age. This means that her skeleton is more mature than 99.7% of other 8 year old girls. She needs a precocious puberty evaluation, talk to your doc

Answered 5/26/2017

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