Comparison of one week 0900 h serum cortisol, low and standard dose synacthen tests with a 4 to 6 week insulin hypoglycaemia test after pituitary surgery in assessing HPA axis

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 431-436

  Courtney, C H ^a   McAllister, A S ^a   McCance, D R ^a   Bell, P M ^a   Hadden, D R ^a   Leslie, H ^b   Sheridan, B ^b   Atkinson, A B ^a,b  

^a Sir George E Clark Metabolic Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0033790146     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2000.01106.x     Document Type: Article

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