Growth without growth hormone: Growth pattern and final height of five patients with idiopathic combined pituitary hormone deficiency

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 82-88

  Lazar, Liora ^b   Dan, Sivan ^b   Phillip, Moshe ^a  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; FOLLITROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; PROTIRELIN; SEX HORMONE;

ACROMEGALY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE AGE; CHILD; CHRONOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DELAYED PUBERTY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH PERIOD; GROWTH RETARDATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINISM; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; MALE; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; PENIS; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SEPTOOPTIC DYSPLASIA; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GROWTH; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; PITUITARY HORMONES; PROLACTIN;

EID: 0038434536     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01805.x     Document Type: Article

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