ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: The absence of menarche in a girl aged > 15 yrs requires extensive endocrinological and gynecological diagnostics. Amenorrhea occurs with a frequency of 3–4% among women of reproductive age. The most common causes of primary amenorrhea are: primary ovarian failure (48.5%), agenesis of the Müllerian ducts (16.2%), gonadotropin deficiency (8.3%) and constitutional delay in growth and puberty (6%).Materia...

Background: Obesity is one of these chronic diseases that makes difficulties in achieving a therapeutic effect and maintaining the obtained effect both in respect of lost kilograms and preventing from the development of its associated diseases. The children's population has the primacy of development of this disease. Surgical treatment is an alternative and in many cases the only right solution to ineffective conservative treatment. It is one of the stage...

Background: The ‘External Masculinization Score’ (EMS) is an objective method of scoring undervirilized genitalia in infants but may require further adaptation to capture the appearance of the genitalia more comprehensively across the phenotypic spectrum.Objective: To develop and validate a non-binary, standardized score that describes the range of appearance of external genitalia.Method: The external genitalia score (EGS...