Endocrine assessment and principles of endocrine testing

Growth Disorders, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 219-229

  Hindmarsh, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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