Abnormal puberty in paediatric Cushing's disease: Relationship with adrenal androgen, sex hormone binding globulin and gonadotrophin concentrations

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 838-843

  Dupuis, C C ^a   Storr, H L ^a   Perry, L A ^a   Ho, J T F ^a   Ahmed, L ^b   Ong, K K ^b   Dunger, D B ^b   Monson, J P ^a   Grossman, A B ^a   Besser, G M ^a   Savage, M O ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUSHING DISEASE; DELAYED PUBERTY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS WEIGHT; VIRILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANDROGENS; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTOSTERONE; VIRILISM;

EID: 34347398491     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02822.x     Document Type: Article

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