Oxandrolone, an anabolic steroid, significantly increases the rate of weight gain in the recovery phase after major burns

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-51

  Demling, Robert H ^a,b   DeSanti, Leslie ^a  

^a Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; OXANDROLONE; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE; SUSTACAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BURN; BURN EXCISION; CALORIC INTAKE; CATABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN GRAFT; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND CLOSURE;

EID: 0030833599     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199707000-00012     Document Type: Article

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