Early puberty in girls

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 153-163

  Mul, D ^a,b   Oostdijk, W ^a,b   Drop, S L S ^a,b  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adopted children; Early puberty; GnRHa treatment; Precocious puberty; Short stature

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; PLACEBO; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PHYTOESTROGEN;

ADOPTION; AGE; BODY HEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GIRL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT CODING; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SHORT STATURE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPINA BIFIDA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; BIRTH WEIGHT; GONADORELIN TEST; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MENARCHE; NUTRITION; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

EID: 0036432099     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/beem.2001.0187     Document Type: Article

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