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Variation in lower leg growth with alternate day steroid treatment
1Department of Paediatrics, University of Sheffield, Children's Hospital.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|August 1, 1988
Abstract:
Daily growth of the lower leg in a child receiving alternate day oral steroids for Crohn's disease was measured by knemometry. Growth occurred on days free of treatment. This may represent a direct observation of the growth sparing effect of alternate day steroid medication.