Determination of adrenal volume by MRI in healthy children: Associations with age, body size, pubertal stage and serum levels of adrenal androgens

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 183-189

  Mouritsen, Annette ^a   Johansen, Marie Lindhardt ^a   Wohlfahrt Veje, Christine ^a   Hagen, Casper P ^a   Tinggaard, Jeanette ^a   Mieritz, Mikkel G ^a   Tefre De Renzy Martin, Katrine ^a   Soeborg, Tue ^a   Fallentin, Eva ^b   Juul, Anders ^a   Main, Katharina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL GLAND VOLUME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; CHILD; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HAIR; HUMAN; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBERTY; PUBIC HAIR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLANDS; ANDROGENS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEXUAL MATURATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84904394040     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.12414     Document Type: Article

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