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. 2025 Aug 27.
doi: 10.1007/s12020-025-04398-2. Online ahead of print.

A knee bone age-based predictive nomogram for the poor response to growth hormone therapy in children with idiopathic short stature during mid-to-late puberty

Yuxin Sun #  1   2 , Zhibo Zhou #  1 , Jiaqi Qiang  1 , Fengdan Wang  3 , Shi Chen  4 , Hui Pan  5
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A knee bone age-based predictive nomogram for the poor response to growth hormone therapy in children with idiopathic short stature during mid-to-late puberty

Yuxin Sun et al. Endocrine. .
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Keywords: Bone age; Growth hormone therapy; Idiopathic short stature; Magnetic resonance imaging; Puberty.

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Declarations. Conflict of interest: The authors declare no competing interests. Statements and Declarations: This study was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program, with data available upon reasonable request, approved by the Ethics Committee of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and the authors declare no conflicts of interest, confirming the work is original and has not been submitted or published elsewhere.

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