Out of the shadows: It is time to mainstream treatment for transgender patients

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 248-250

  Safer, Joshua D ^a   Tangpricha, Vin ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; NOTE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRIA TERMINALIS; TRANSSEXUALISM; TREATMENT INDICATION; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 45849128012     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.14.2.248     Document Type: Note

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