The diagnostic value of first-voided urinary LH compared with GNRH-stimulated gonadotropins in differentiating slowly progressive from rapidly progressive precocious puberty in girls

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 749-758

  Zung, Amnon ^a   Burundukov, Ella ^a   Ulman, Mira ^a   Glaser, Tamar ^a   Rosenberg, Moshe ^a   Chen, Malka ^a   Zadik, Zvi ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN DERIVATIVE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GONADORELIN TEST; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE URINE LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COSYNTROPIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, HUMAN; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899719341     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-14-0010     Document Type: Article

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