An audit of 500 subcutaneous glucagon stimulation tests to assess growth hormone and ACTH secretion in patients with hypothalamic-pituitary disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 463-468

  Leong, K S ^a   Walker, A B ^b   Martin, I ^c   Wile, D ^c   Wilding, J ^c   MacFarlane, I A ^c  

^a WHISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Clinical Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCAGON; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; RECOMBINANT GLUCAGON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SWEATING; VOMITING;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHILD; FEMALE; GLUCAGON; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035725291     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2001.01169.x     Document Type: Article

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