Experience with growth hormone therapy in Turner syndrome in a single centre: Low total height gain, no further gains after puberty onset and unchanged body proportions

Hormone Research

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 228-238

  Schweizer, R ^a   Ranke, M B ^a   Binder, G ^a   Herdach, F ^b   Zapadlo, M ^b   Grauer, M L ^a   Schwarze, C P ^a   Wollmann, H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body proportions; Growth hormone treatment, final height; Turner syndrome

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; OXANDROLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BONE AGE; CHILD; DELAYED PUBERTY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPING; LEG LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SHORT STATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0033712583     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000023572     Document Type: Article

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