Sex steroid treatment of constitutionally tall stature

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 540-558

  Drop, Stenvert L S ^a,b   De Waal, Wouter J ^a   De Muinck Keizer Schrama, Sabine M P F ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DYDROGESTERONE; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MESTRANOL; NORETHISTERONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE; VITAMIN D;

BONE AGE; BONE GROWTH; BONE MATURATION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GONAD FUNCTION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HEADACHE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; HYPERTRICHOSIS; MALE; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEROID THERAPY; TALL STATURE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DEVELOPMENT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONES; VITAMIN D;

EID: 0031670649     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.19.5.540     Document Type: Review

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