Final height and growth hormone secretion after completion of growth hormone therapy in patients with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency and with abnormalities of the hypothalamic-pituitary region

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-24

  Hilczer, Maciej ^a,b   Smyczynska, Joanna ^b   Stawerska, Renata ^b   Lewinski, Andrzej ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Abnormalities of hypothalamic pituitary region; Final height; Growth hormone deficiency; Growth hormone therapy; Short stature

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 15444375619     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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