Cetrorelix suppression test to assess the source of androgen overproduction in postmenopausal hirsutism

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 391-393

  de Boer, Hans ^a   de Man, Marian ^a   de Bruyn, Kim ^a   van Sorge, Adriaan ^a  

^a RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CARBASALATE CALCIUM; CETRORELIX; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; LISINOPRIL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METOPROLOL; PROGESTERONE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; SIMVASTATIN; TEMAZEPAM; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; GOITER; HIRSUTISM; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THECOMA; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANDROGENS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HIRSUTISM; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HORMONES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RECEPTORS, LHRH;

EID: 33749067411     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.1.02224     Document Type: Article

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