ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Endocrine diseases
Certain disorders of puberty
5A91 — Delayed puberty
ICD-11 5A91 — Delayed puberty
This is when an organism has passed the usual age of onset of puberty with no physical or hormonal signs that it is beginning. Puberty may be delayed for several years and still occur normally, in which case it is considered constitutional delay, a variation of healthy physical development. Delay of puberty may also occur due to malnutrition, many forms of systemic disease, or to defects of the reproductive system (hypogonadism) or the body's responsiveness to sex hormones.
It includes 2 items.
- Delayed sexual development
- Constitutional delay of puberty
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.