No advantage of the new combined octreotide-GHRH test over established GH-stimulation tests in the diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in adults

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 667-674

  Schütz, Florian ^a   Wüster, Christian ^a,c   Heilmann, Peter ^a   Ziegler, Reinhard ^a   Hadji, Peyman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c Internistische Ambulanz/Kopfklinik Heidelberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; OCTREOTIDE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; INSULIN HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; ARGININE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCTREOTIDE; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034490801     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2000.01113.x     Document Type: Article

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