Assessment of gonadotrophin suppression in girls treated with GnRH analogue for central precocious puberty; Validity of single luteinizing hormone measurement after leuprolide acetate injection

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 126-130

  Demirbilek, Huseyin ^a   Alikasifoglu, Ayfer ^a   Gonc, Nazli E ^a   Ozon, Alev ^a   Kandemir, Nurgun ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONADORELIN TEST; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBERTY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUPROLIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83455179529     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04185.x     Document Type: Article

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