The Frequency and Natural History of Diabetes Insipidus in Children with Langerhans-Cell Histiocytosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 321, Issue 17, 1989, Pages 1157-1162

  Dunger, David B ^a   Broadbent, Valerie ^a   Yeoman, Elizabeth ^a   Seckl, Jonathan R ^b   Lightman, Stafford L ^b   Grant, David B ^a   Pritchard, Jon ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b Westminster Hospital Medical School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CHLORMETHINE; DESMOPRESSIN; PREDNISOLONE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; CHILD; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; INFANT; LANGERHANS CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINE LEVEL;

EID: 0024317524     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198910263211704     Document Type: Article

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