Puberty suppression in gender identity disorder: The Amsterdam experience

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 466-472

  Kreukels, Baudewijntje P C ^a   Cohen Kettenis, Peggy T ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTIANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; PROGESTERONE; TRIPTORELIN;

ANXIETY; AUTOMUTILATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; GENDER DYSPHORIA; HUMAN; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; PUBERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PUBERTY; SEX REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURES; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 79960844088     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2011.78     Document Type: Review

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