The diagnosis of severe growth hormone deficiency in elderly patients with hypothalamic-pituitary disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 569-576

  Toogood, Andrew A ^a   Jones, Jenny ^b   O'Neill, Paul A ^c   Thorner, Michael O ^d   Shalet, Stephen M ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE METABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGININE; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 2; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 3; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEINS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY DISEASES; SOMATOMEDINS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0031800687     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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