Delayed puberty: When to wake the bugler

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 724-726

  Saenger, P ^a   Sandberg, D E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

BODY MASS; CUSHING DISEASE; DELAYED PUBERTY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0031675864     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3476(98)70139-8     Document Type: Editorial

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