Assessment of GH reserve before and after successful treatment of adult patients with Cushing's syndrome

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 309-314

  Tzanela, Marinella ^a   Karavitaki, Niki ^a   Stylianidou, Christiana ^a   Tsagarakis, Stylianos ^a   Thalassinos, Nikos C ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; SOMATOMEDIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CUSHING SYNDROME; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST; MALE; PATIENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRIDOSTIGMINE BROMIDE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 1542299592     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2004.01976.x     Document Type: Article

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