Growth and development: How safe is growth hormone therapy for children?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 251-253

  Chernausek, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVOR; CARCINOGENICITY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG SAFETY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPITUITARISM; IN VITRO STUDY; JAPANESE; LEUKEMIA; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK FACTOR; SCOLIOSIS; SHORT STATURE; SHORT SURVEY; SLIPPED CAPITAL FEMORAL EPIPHYSIS;

CHILD; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77951698107     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2010.43     Document Type: Short Survey

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