Prepubertal gynaecomastia caused by medication or the aromatase excess syndrome [2]

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 779-780

  Stratakis, Constantine A ^a   Batista, Dalia ^a   Sabnis, Gauri ^b   Brodie, Angela ^b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CIMETIDINE; ESTROGEN; RECOMBINANT GROWTH FACTOR;

AROMATASE EXCESS SYNDROME; AROMATIZATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMAN; LETTER; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; CIMETIDINE; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL;

EID: 10844245457     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02158.x     Document Type: Letter

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