Final height in girls with central idiopathic precocious puberty treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog and oxandrolone

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1284-1287

  Vottero, Alessandra ^a   Pedori, Simona ^a   Verna, Marta ^a   Pagano, Blandina ^a   Cappa, Marco ^b   Loche, Sandro ^c   Bernasconi, Sergio ^a   Ghizzoni, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Osp Regionale per le Microcitemie   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUPRORELIN; OXANDROLONE; ANABOLIC AGENT; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; GROWTH; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LEUPROLIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OXANDROLONE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS;

EID: 33646060450     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-1693     Document Type: Article

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