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Shortening L-DOPA testing time in the diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency: is it possible?

2022-08-12

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Introduction: </bold>Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) diagnosis in childhood is based on clinical and auxological assessment, combined with biochemical tests, but the reliability of pharmacological provocative tests in diagnosing GHD in children remains disputed. In recent years several papers have been published on standardizing the duration of the test for some stimuli. The aim o...

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Literature Corpus work: c8d6f387-23c1-5db3-92e7-29ba7ee66a62
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1926844/v1

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