The potential for serious consequences from misinterpreting normal responses to the rapid adrenocorticotropin test

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 285-290

  Streeten, David H P ^a   Anderson Jr , Gunnar H ^b   Bonaventura, Margherite M ^b  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL STRESS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0030069378     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.1.285     Document Type: Article

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