Congenital growth hormone deficiency associated with hip dysplasia and Legg-Calve-Perthes disease.

Elisa Baranski Lamback Stella Chiarini Andreas Roposch Mehul Tulsidas Dattani

Published in: Clinical endocrinology (2020)

This study suggests that hip dysplasia could be a manifestation of an underlying GHD. Additionally, rhGH treatment may not necessarily be causative of LCPD.

Keyphrases

growth hormone
total hip arthroplasty
replacement therapy