Utility of single luteinizing hormone determination 3 h after depot leuprolide in monitoring therapy of gonadotropin-dependent precocious puberty

Pituitary

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 335-338

  Acharya, Shrikrishna V ^a   Gopal, Raju A ^a   George, Joe ^a   Bandgar, Tushar R ^a   Menon, Padma S ^a   Shah, Nalini S ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Gonadotropin; Leuprolide; Luteinizing hormone; Precocious puberty

Indexed keywords

LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; GONADORELIN TEST; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PATIENT MONITORING; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LEUPROLIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350270385     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-009-0184-0     Document Type: Article

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