Hormonal management of complete androgen insensitivity syndrome from adolescence onward

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 428-433

  Bertelloni, Silvano ^a   Dati, Eleonora ^a   Baroncelli, Giampiero I ^a   Hiort, Olaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Bone health; Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome; Estrogens; Hormonal replacement therapy; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE AGE; BONE DENSITY; BONE GROWTH; BONE MASS; BONE MATURATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPIPHYSIS DISEASE; FEMALE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HEART INFARCTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; LOW DRUG DOSE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); POSTMENOPAUSE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TURNER SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; BONE RESORPTION; ESTROGENS; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PUBERTY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755224726     PISSN: 16632818     EISSN: 16632826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334162     Document Type: Article

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