Biochemical selection of prepubertal patients with androgen insensitivity syndrome by sex hormone-binding globulin response to the human chorionic gonadotropin test

Pediatric Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 266-271

  Bertelloni, Silvano ^a   Federico, Giovanni ^a   Baroncelli, Giampiero I ^a   Cavallo, Luciano ^b   Corsello, Giovanni ^c   Liotta, Andrea ^c   Rigon, Franco ^d   Saggese, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 0031023070     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199702000-00018     Document Type: Article

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