Sexual development in girls
Puberty in Girls and Women's Health Issues - Learn about from the Merck Manuals - Medical During puberty, sexual development occurs in a set sequence.
Puberty: Adolescent Female
Description:Methods for Rating Sexual Development in Girls. Sexual maturity rating SMR is important in population studies and in clinical care. Pubertal staging allows doctors to assess the maturation of adolescents to correlate several pubertal phenomena such as age at menarche, growth spurt and final height, to advise and manage patients appropriately and to have sensitive "sensors" of the effects of environmental exposure on human populations. The commonly used markers of the timing of female puberty are thelarche and menarche. The assessment of Tanner stages by professionals provides more reliable information than self-assessment but may involve variations between observers.
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