[Precocious puberty associated with Silver's syndrome].

Precocious puberty has been reported as an important feature of the Silver-Russell syndrome. The present case refers to a boy entered puberty at the chronological age of 11 years and the bone age of 6 years 6/12. Criteria for precocious puberty in this syndrome are discussed by comparison with previously published cases, and it is concluded that abnormalities in clinical pubertal development are quite unusual in this syndrome.