NBME 20 Breast bud development (NBME Answers)

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A 10-year-old girl is brought to the ...
Breast bud development 🔍 / 📺 / 🌳 / 📖
tags: Tanner

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submitted by ∗hayayah(1212)

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Earliest detectable secondary sexual characteristic is breast bud development in girls, testicular enlargement in boys.

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pg32 How did you know this? The Tanner stages in FA simply list pubarche and breast buds developing in the same stage without stating which comes first. Thanks! +5

lynn @pg32 look at the paragraph above the diagram, it says that exactly. Took me a minute too lol +6

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submitted by hellohello(14)

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Found these notes written into my FA, unknown where they came from but has gotten me questions correct thus far.

Males: Testicular growth -> Penile Growth -> Pubarche -> Growth Spurt -> Spermatogenesis

Females: Thelarche -> Pubarche -> growth spurt -> Menarche

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submitted by ∗lilyo(94)

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Take a look at FA pg.623 for tanner stages of sexual development.

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baja_blast (This is the right page for FA 2019) +1

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