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Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) in Childhood and Adolescence: Recent Advances
22 Jan 2014
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The diagnosis of GH deficiency (GHD) in childhood is a multistep process involving clinical history, examination with detailed auxology, biochemical testing, and pituitary imaging, with an increasing contribution from genetics in patients with congenital GHD. Our increasing understanding of the factors involved in the development of somatotropes and the dynamic function of the somatotrope network may explain, at...
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