[Psychosocial aspects of extremely tall girls with a treatment-induced precocious puberty (author's transl)].

Is psychosocial development influenced by tall stature and/or induced precocious puberty? This question was examined in 20 girls at 9,5 to 15,8 years of age who were admitted to estrogen treatment because of excessive constitutional tallness. Additionally, reference was made to the results of psychologically directed interviews with 86 girls who had undergone such treatment when 9 to 13 years old, and who belonged to a total collective of 387 tall girls cared for in the years 1966 to 1980. About half of the girls let discern symptoms pointing to neurosis, culminating in late puberty (age of dancing-lesion). Further essential psychical problems, originating from treatment-induced "early normal puberty", were not found. It is inferred that no serious objections arise, from the psychological point of view, against estrogen treatment of tall stature in prepuberal girls.