A 4-month-old boy with severe emaciation, normal linear growth, and a happy affect

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 50-57

  Greenes, David ^a   Woods, Monika ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Roslindale Pediatrics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAILURE TO THRIVE; GLIOMA; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; INFANT; LIPOLYSIS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; SYNDROME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ASTROCYTOMA; CARBOPLATIN; DIENCEPHALON; EUPHORIA; FAILURE TO THRIVE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; INFANT; MALE; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0029997539     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-199602000-00011     Document Type: Article

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