Management of the transgender adolescent

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-176

  Olson, Johanna ^a   Forbes, Catherine ^a   Belzer, Marvin ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; PROGESTERONE; SPIRONOLACTONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT DISEASE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LIPOSUCTION; MASTECTOMY; MENTAL HEALTH; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBERTY; REVIEW; TRACHEA SURGERY; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 79751496584     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.275     Document Type: Review

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