Premature pubarche

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 420-422

  Ghizzoni, Lucia ^a   Gasco, Valentina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

BODY HEIGHT; BONE MATURATION; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPERINSULINEMIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; OBESITY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS;

EID: 77954065929     PISSN: 16632818     EISSN: 16632826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000308178     Document Type: Short Survey

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