Care of transsexual persons

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1251-1257

  Gooren, Louis J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; ANTIESTROGEN; BICALUTAMIDE; CALCIUM; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FLUTAMIDE; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; NILUTAMIDE; TESTOSTERONE; VITAMIN D; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLON TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; GENDER DYSPHORIA; GENDER IDENTITY; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; MENINGIOMA; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OVARY CARCINOMA; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL STATUS; TRANSSEXUALISM; VAGINA CANCER; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VIRILIZATION; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEX REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES; SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 79953221118     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp1008161     Document Type: Article

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