Update from the GHMonitorSM observational registry in children treated with recombinant human growth hormone (Saizen®)

Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 278-282

  Plotnick, Leslie ^a   Rapaport, Robert ^b   Desrosiers, Paul ^c   Fuqua, John S ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ARNOLD PALMER HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose; GHMonitorSM; Gonadal steroid hormones; Growth hormone; Growth hormone deficiency; Pituitary hormone deficiency

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

BODY MASS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CRANIOTOMY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMUR HEAD EPIPHYSIOLYSIS; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE PITUITARY HORMONE DEFICIENCY; NEEDLE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REGISTER; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SYRINGE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PITUITARY HORMONES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGISTRIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549096356     PISSN: 15654753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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