Vasopressin levels in Cushing's disease: Inferior petrosal sinus assay, response to corticotrophin-releasing hormone and comparison with patients without Cushing's disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-166

  Colao, Annamaria ^a   Ferone, Diego ^a   Di Sarno, Antonella ^a   Tripodi, Francesca S ^a   Cerbone, Gaetana ^a   Marzullo, Paolo ^a   Boudouresque, Françoise ^b   Oliver, Charles ^b   Merola, Bartolomeo ^a   Lombardi, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9444253458     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1996.d01-1551.x     Document Type: Article

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