Concomitant medication use can confound interpretation of the combined dexamethasone-corticotropin releasing hormone test in cushing's syndrome

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4851-4859

  Valassi, Elena ^a   Swearingen, Brooke ^a   Lee, Hang ^a   Nachtigall, Lisa B ^a   Donoho, Daniel A ^a   Klibanski, Anne ^a   Biller, Beverly M K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 73249153667     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2009-1500     Document Type: Article

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