Endocrine treatment of transsexual persons: Extensive personal experience

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 644-650

  Leinung, Matthew ^a   Urizar, Marco ^a,b   Patel, Nilem ^a,c   Sood, Shannon ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Miami Beach Convention Center   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREVALENCE; SEX REASSIGNMENT; TRANSSEXUALITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; TRANSSEXUALISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883331716     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP12170.OR     Document Type: Article

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