Reduced birth weight in boys with hypospadias: An index of androgen dysfunction?

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Hughes, I A ^a   Northstone, K ^b   Golding, J ^b   ALSPAC Study Team, ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEWBORN;

ANDROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE;

EID: 0036724821     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.87.2.f150     Document Type: Article

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