Delayed puberty

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 443-453

  Palmert, Mark R ^a,b   Dunkel, Leo ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GESTAGEN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; INHIBIN B; LETROZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AGE; CASE REPORT; DELAYED PUBERTY; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FATHER; GENDER; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; GROWTH RATE; HAIR; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LIVER TOXICITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MENARCHE; MOTHER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PUBERTY; PUBIC HAIR; SHORT STATURE; SIDE EFFECT; STAGING; TANNER STAGE; TESTIS SIZE; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION; WEIGHT GAIN; AGE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GROWTH; GROWTH CURVE; HYPOGONADISM; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GROWTH; GROWTH CHARTS; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PUBERTY, DELAYED; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84856575903     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp1109290     Document Type: Article

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