Factors predicting final height in early treated congenital hypothyroid patients

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 693-697

  Delvecchio, Maurizio ^a,c   Salerno, Mariacarolina ^a   Acquafredda, Angelo ^a   Zecchino, Clara ^a   Fico, Francesca ^a   Manca, Fabio ^b   Faienza, Maria Felicia ^a   Cavallo, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c Department of Biomedicina dell'Età Evolutiva ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENARCHE; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROID FUNCTION;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENARCHE; PARENTS; PUBERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROXINE;

EID: 33750054355     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02651.x     Document Type: Article

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