Advanced bone age

Bone age is the degree of maturation of a child's bones. As a person grows from fetal life through childhood, puberty, and finishes growth as a young adult, the bones of the skeleton change in size and shape. [Source: Wikipedia ]

Synonyms
Generalized accelerated skeletal maturation
Increased bone age
Subtypes
Advanced bone age in a newborn
May Be Caused by
Acquired hyperthyroidism
Acrodysostosis
Adrenal hyperplasia
Adrenal neoplasm
Adrenocortical tumor
Adrenogenital syndrome
Alström syndrome
Astrocytoma
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
Brain tumor
Cockayne syndrome
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Constitutional tall stature
Contractural arachnodactyly
Craniopharyngioma
Cushing syndrome
Diastrophic dysplasia
DiGeorge syndrome
Dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica
Ectopic gonadotropin production
Ectopic pinealoma
Encephalitis
Epidermal nevus syndrome
Exogenous obesity with overgrowth and tall stature
Familial overgrowth
Familial tall stature
Gigantism
Gonadal neoplasm
Hamartoma
Homocystinuria
Hyperpituitarism
Hyperthyroidism
Hypertrichotic osteochondrodysplasia
Idiopathic familial advanced bone age
Idiopathic isosexual precocious puberty
Infant of hyperthyroid mother
Lethal sclerotic skeletal dysplasia
Lipodystrophy
Marfanoid habitus - inguinal hernia - advanced bone age
Marshall-Smith syndrome
Mucopolysaccharidosis type 6
Neurofibromatosis type 1
Obesity
Optic chiasm glioma
Otospondylometaphyseal dysplasia
Pituitary gigantism
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
Primary aldosteronism
Primary hyperaldosteronism
Primary pinealoma
Pseudohypoparathyroidism
Rett syndrome
Sexual precocity
Sotos syndrome
Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia short limb-hand-abnormal calcification type
Trisomy 8
Tuberculosis
Tuberous sclerosis
Weaver syndrome
Generalized accelerated skeletal maturation
Increased bone age