RT Journal
A1 Campos SP, MacGillivray MH
T1 SEx steroids do not influence somatic growth in childhood
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1989
FD August 1
VO 143
IS 8
SP 942
OP 943
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150200102026
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150200102026
AB • The influence of sex steroids on somatic growth during childhood was evaluated by reviewing linear growth characteristics of 18 agonadal patients with normal sex chromosomes. None of the heights throughout childhood and before the onset of sex steroid therapy were below 2 SDs of the mean. Based on the normal z scores of these patients, we concluded that somatic growth throughout the childhood and prepubertal years is not sex-steroid dependent.(AJDC. 1989;143:942-943)