Precocious Puberty Associated With Neurofibromatosis and Optic Gliomas: Treatment With Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Hormone Analogue

American Journal of Diseases of Children

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 1985, Pages 1097-1100

  Laue, Louisa ^a   Comite, Florence ^a   Hench, Karen ^a   Loriaux, D Lynn ^a   Cutler, Gordon B ^a   Pescovitz, Ora Hirsch ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHAKOMATOSIS; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THERAPY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTODOXONE; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GLIOMA; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH; HUMANS; HYDROXYPROGESTERONES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TESTOSTERONE; TRIPTORELIN;

EID: 0022186648     PISSN: 0002922X     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1985.02140130035025     Document Type: Article

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