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Does priming with sex steroids improve the diagnosis of normal growth hormone secretion in short children?

INTRODUCTION: There is still controversy for priming with sex steroid before growth hormone (GH) testing. OBJECTIVE: We studied GH response to stimulation in 92 children >9 years with idiopathic short stature (height standard deviation score [HtSDS]-2). They were divided randomly into two groups....

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Autores principales: Soliman, Ashraf, Adel, Ashraf, Sabt, Aml, Elbukhari, Elkhansa, Ahmed, Hannah, De Sanctis, Vincenzo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25538882
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.145078