Is sex hormone priming in peripubertal children prior to growth hormone stimulation tests still appropriate?

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 299-302

  Lazar, L ^a,b   Phillip, M ^a,b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Growth hormone stimulation; Puberty; Sex hormone priming

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL VALERATE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GROWTH HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

BREAST HYPERPLASIA; DELAYED PUBERTY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; PENILE SWELLING; PENIS ERECTION; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX HORMONE PRIMING; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBERTY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77951444325     PISSN: 16632818     EISSN: 16632826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000284396     Document Type: Short Survey

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