Diagnostic Approach in Children with Short Stature
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Diagnostic approach in children with short stature.
For early detection of pathological causes of growth failure proper referral criteria are needed, as well as a thorough clinical, radiological and laboratory assessment. In this minireview we first discuss the two consensus-based and one evidence-based guidelines for referral that have been published. The evidence-based guidelines result in a sensitivity of approximately 80% at a false-positive...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hormone Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1423-0046,0301-0163
DOI: 10.1159/000236082