Short-term, high-dose testosterone treatment fails to reduce adult height in boys with constitutional tall stature

The results of short-term (6 months) hig

The results of short-term (6 months) high-dose testosterone treatment on bone age and adult height in boys of excessively tall stature

✍ J. H. Brämswig; H. J. v. Lengerke; H. Schmidt; G. Schellong 📂 Article 📅 1988 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 331 KB

Forty-nine pubertal tall boys with a mean height prediction of 203.59 cm according to the Bayley-Pinneau (BP) method were treated prospectively with 500 mg testosterone-oenanthate every 2 weeks for a period of 6 months. Before therapy chronological age (CA) was 14.14 years and bone age (BA) 13.88 ye