Adrenal insufficiency: Diagnosis and management

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 80-85

  Munver, Ravi ^a   Volfson, Ilya A ^b  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTISONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; FLUDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE; MINERALOCORTICOID; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; SURAMIN;

ADDISON DISEASE; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENAL METASTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DISEASE COURSE; FATIGUE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SECONDARY ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADRENAL GLAND; BIOSYNTHESIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; SECRETION;

ADRENAL CORTEX FUNCTION TESTS; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ALDOSTERONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE;

EID: 33744467419     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-006-0046-5     Document Type: Review

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