Growth hormone deficiency and coeliac disease: An unusual association?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 372-375

  Bozzola, Mauro ^a   Giovenale, Diletta ^a   Bozzola, Elena ^a   Meazza, Cristina ^a   Martinetti, Miryam ^b   Tinelli, Carmine ^a   Corazza, Gino Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Department of Pathology   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOMYSIUM ANTIBODY; GROWTH HORMONE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; LEVOTHYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE AGE; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLUTEN FREE DIET; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; INTESTINE BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT STATURE;

ADOLESCENT; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLUTEN; GROWTH DISORDERS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 15044361626     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2005.02227.x     Document Type: Article

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