Diagnostic Accuracy of Growth Rate in Differentiating Etiologies of Short Stature in Children
Background Short stature is a manifestation of a wide variety of conditions that some of which may be amenable to timely treatment and a suboptimal growth rate may be an early marker pointing to the cause of growth retardation. This study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic utility of growth r...
Main Authors: | Mohammad Reza Alaei, Hedyeh Saneifard, Marjan Shakiba, Hossein Shabani Mirzaei |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
2016-08-01
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Series: | International Journal of Pediatrics |
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Online Access: | http://ijp.mums.ac.ir/article_7394_eb98f0d9c59444f9529c4af20b976ba5.pdf |
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