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Testicular descent related to growth hormone treatment
Anastasios Papadimitriou1, Ioanna Fountzoula, Despina Grigoriadou
1Endocrinology Clinic, Penteli Children's Hospital, Palea Penteli, Athens, Greece. lix@ath.forthnet.gr
Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism : JPEM
|June 10, 2003
Abstract:
An 8.7 year-old boy with cryptorchidism and growth hormone (GH) deficiency due to septooptic dysplasia presented testicular descent related to the commencement of hGH treatment. This case suggests a role for GH in testicular descent.