Final height of patients with turner's syndrome treated with growth hormone (GH): Indications for GH therapy alone at high doses and late estrogen therapy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 4510-4515

  Cacciari, Emanuele ^a   Mazzanti, Laura ^a   Bergamaschi, Rosalba ^b   Perri, Annamaria ^b   Scarano, Emanuela ^b   Chiumello, Giuseppe ^b   Guarnieri, Maria Pia ^b   Rigon, Franco ^b   Licursi, Anna ^b   Pasquino, Anna Maria ^b   Pucarelli, Ida ^b   Di Maio, Salvatore ^b   Salerno, Mariacarolina ^b   Severi, Francesca ^b   Larizza, Daniela ^b   Prisco, Francesco ^b   Bernasconi, Sergio ^b   Buzi, Fabio ^b   Matarazzo, Patrizia ^b   Cavallo, Luciano ^b   Saggese, Giuseppe ^b   Tonini, Giorgio ^b   Ragusa, Maria Carlotta ^b   Sposito, Maddalena ^b   Gabrielli, Orazio ^b   De Matteis, Fabrizio ^b   Benso, Lodovico ^b   Boscherini, Brunetto ^b   Radetti, Giorgio ^b   La Cauza, Carmelo ^b   De Luca, Filippo ^b   Borrelli, Patrizia ^b   Morabito, Francesco ^b   Bona, Gianni ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GROWTH HORMONE; OXANDROLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE AGE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MIXTURE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT STATURE; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0033304808     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.84.12.6175     Document Type: Article

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