Editorial: On the term "relative adrenal insufficiency" - Or what do we really measure with adrenal stimulation tests?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 4973-4974

  Dickstein, Gabriel ^a  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SEPTIC SHOCK; STRESS; BLOOD; NOTE;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE;

EID: 23844522823     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-1196     Document Type: Editorial

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