Turner syndrome: Diagnosis and management

American Family Physician

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 405-410

  Morgan, Thomas ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; ESTROGEN; GROWTH HORMONE; LIPID; OXANDROLONE; VITAMIN D;

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EAR MALFORMATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTELLIGENCE; KARYOTYPE 45,X; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; MILROY DISEASE; NIPPLE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIMARY AMENORRHEA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PUBERTY; SHORT STATURE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; THORAX MALFORMATION; TURNER SYNDROME; VALGUS DEFORMITY; WEBBED NECK; X CHROMOSOME;

BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; KARYOTYPING; OSTEOPOROSIS; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 34547683917     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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