Comparison of detection of normal puberty in boys by a hormonal sleep test and a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist test

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4596-4604

  Rosenfield, Robert L ^a   Bordini, Brian ^a   Yu, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; GONADOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE AGONIST TEST; HORMONAL SLEEP TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; TESTIS SIZE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ENDOCRINE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PUBERTY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SLEEP; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84870740752     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-2722     Document Type: Article

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