Rheumatoid arthritis and growth retardat
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Otfrid Butenandt
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Article
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1979
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Springer
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English
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Twenty patients with rheumatoid arthritis or Still's disease associated with growth failure were treated with human growth hoi'mone, 7.5 to 1 7 U / m 2 body surface per week. Five patients did not respond with better growth. In the remainder the mean growth rate increased from 1.9 cm/year (range: 0