Leuprolide stimulation testing for the evaluation of early female sexual maturation

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-381

  Sathasivam, Anpalakan ^a   Garibaldi, Luigi ^b   Shapiro, Sofia ^a   Godbold, James ^a   Rapaport, Robert ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; LEUPROLIDE STIMULATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL MATURATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LEUPROLIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MASS SCREENING; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 77955742997     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03796.x     Document Type: Article

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