SLIPPED FEMORAL CAPITAL EPIPHYSIS OCCURRING DURING GROWTH HORMONE THERAPY

1 November 1974

journal article
Published by British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume

Vol. 56-B (4) , 703-705
https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620x.56b4.703

Abstract

1. A case is reported of a girl aged fifteen with growth hormone deficiency who developed a slip of the left femoral capital epiphysis at the age of seventeen during human growth hormone therapy. 2. The epiphysiolysis is regarded as iatrogenic.

Keywords

GROWTH HORMONE
HORMONE DEFICIENCY
HUMAN GROWTH
CAPITAL EPIPHYSIS
GIRL AGED
FEMORAL CAPITAL

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