The relationship between digital clubbing and serum growth hormone level in patients with lung cancer

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 185-187

  Yorgancioglu A ^a,b   Akin, M ^a   Demiray, M ^a   Dereli, S ^a  

^a Chest Diseases Teaching Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bronchogenic carcinoma; Clubbing; Growth hormone

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUBBING FINGERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0030016145     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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