Ultrasonographic Patterns of Reproductive Organs in Infants Fed Soy Formula: Comparisons to Infants Fed Breast Milk and Milk Formula

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-220

  Gilchrist, Janet M ^a   Moore, Mary Beth ^b   Andres, Aline ^a,b   Estroff, Judy A ^c   Badger, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SOYBEAN MILK; TESTIS; UTERUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; GENITALIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; ISOFLAVONES; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SOY MILK; SOYBEAN PROTEINS; TESTIS; UTERUS;

EID: 74649086311     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.08.043     Document Type: Article

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