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Mortality, Neoplasia, & Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in Patients Treated with Human Pituitary Growth Hormone in the UK
BMJ 302:824-828, Buchanan,C.R.,et al, 1991
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Article Abstract
Recurrence or progression of intracranial tumours and potentially avoidable metabolic consequences of hypopituitarism were the main causes of death.Growth hormone treatment probably did not contribute to new tumour development.Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after pituitary growth hormone treatment continues to occur in the United Kingdom.This cohort must remain under long term review.
 
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