24-Hour Serum Concentration Profile of Cortisol in Patients with Cushing's Disease

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 92, Issue , 1988, Pages 275-279

  Pirich, K ^a   Vierhapper, H ^a  

^a The University of Vienna Austria   (Australia)

Author keywords

24 hour blood; Cortisol profile; Cushing's disease; sampling

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOTROPIN; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OBESITY;

EID: 0024214274     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1210815     Document Type: Article

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