Leuteinizing hormone responses to leuprolide acetate discriminate between hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and constitutional delay of puberty

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 555-560

  Street, Maria Elisabeth ^a   Bandello, Maria Antonietta ^a   Terzi, Cesare ^a   Ibaez, Lourdes ^b   Ghizzoni, Lucia ^a   Volta, Cecilia ^a   Tripodi, Candida ^a   Virdis, Raffaele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Constitutional delay of puberty; Delayed puberty; Diagnosis of delayed puberty; GnRH agonist; Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism; Leuprolide acetate

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED PUBERTY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PUBERTY;

17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; LEUPROLIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PUBERTY, DELAYED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0036179049     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(01)03213-7     Document Type: Article

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