Cost-effectiveness and accuracy of the tests used in the differential diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome

Pituitary

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-132

  Puig, Jaume ^a   Wägner, Anna ^a   Caballero, Agueda ^a   Rodríguez Espinosa, José ^a   Webb, Susan Mary ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cost effective; Cushing's syndrome; Diagnosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METYRAPONE;

ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METYRAPONE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033289470     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009936622150     Document Type: Article

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