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Physical growth, puberty and hormones in adolescents with Nodding Syndrome; a pilot study

BACKGROUND: Nodding syndrome is an epidemic symptomatic generalized epilepsy syndrome of unknown cause in Eastern Africa. Some patients have extreme short stature. We hypothesized that growth failure in nodding syndrome is associated with specific endocrine dysfunctions. In this pilot study, we exam...

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Autores principales:	Piloya-Were, Theresa, Odongkara-Mpora, Beatrice, Namusoke, Hanifa, Idro, Richard
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2014
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25430904 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-858

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