Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist?
The Growth Hormone (GH) continues to act lifelong: it has been described, in fact, an Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency (AGHD) syndrome, involving several organs and functions, whose clinical aspects greatly improve with the administration of human recombinant GH. The authors describe, evaluating the...
Main Authors: | Giovanni Scanelli, Luca Catapano, Beatrice Traverso, Claudia Aimoni |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2013-05-01
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Series: | Italian Journal of Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/298 |
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