Human chorionic gonadotropin therapy in adolescent boys with constitutional delayed puberty vs those with β-thalassemia major

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-23

  Soliman, Ashraf T ^a   Nasr, Ibrahim ^a   Thabet, Alaa ^a   Rizk, Mustafa M ^a   El Matary, Wael ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE AGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELAYED PUBERTY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; IRON OVERLOAD; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTICULAR SIDEROSIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PUBERTY, DELAYED; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 9644281759     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2004.07.006     Document Type: Article

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