Improved diagnostic accuracy of inferior petrosal sinus sampling over imaging for localizing pituitary pathology in patients with Cushing's disease

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2291-2295

  Booth, Gillian L ^a   Redelmeier, Donald A ^a   Grosman, Harvey ^a   Kovacs, Kalman ^a   Smyth, Harley S ^b   Ezzat, Shereen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANASAL SINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PETROSAL SINUS SAMPLING; PITUITARY GLAND; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031728522     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.7.2291     Document Type: Article

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