Comparison of bone mineral density and body proportions between women with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome and women with gonadal dysgenesis

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-185

  Han, T S ^a   Goswami, D ^a   Trikudanathan, S ^a   Creighton, S M ^a   Conway, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; TESTOSTERONE; ESTROGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; BONE MINERALIZATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GONADECTOMY; HIP; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERAPY DELAY; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; PATHOLOGY; RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BONE DENSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 49649119709     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-08-0166     Document Type: Article

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