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    Clinical Endocrinology: Volume 48, Issue 5

    531-672
    May 1998
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Original Articles

Genetic alterations in human epithelial thyroid tumours

Horacio G. Suárez, 
  • Pages: 531-546
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Increased body weight associated with prolactin secreting pituitary adenomas: weight loss with normalization of prolactin levels

Yona Greenman,  Karen Tordjman,  Naftali Stern, 
  • Pages: 547-553
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Original Article

Exaggerated 17-hydroxyprogesterone response to short-term adrenal stimulation and evidence for CYP21B gene point mutations in true precocious puberty

Mariangela Cisternino,  Elisabetta Dondi,  Miryam Martinetti,  Renata Lorini,  Laura Salvaneschi,  Mariaclara Cuccia,  Francesca Severi, 
  • Pages: 555-560
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Original Articles

Effect of long-term treatment with GH on bone metabolism, bone mineral density and bone elasticity in GH-deficient adults

P. Kann,  B. Piepkorn,  B. Schehler,  J. Andreas,  J. Lotz,  W. Prellwitz,  J. Beyer, 
  • Pages: 561-568
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

The diagnosis of severe growth hormone deficiency in elderly patients with hypothalamic–pituitary disease

Andrew A. Toogood,  Jenny Jones,  Paul A. O'Neill,  Michael O. Thorner,  Stephen M. Shalet, 
  • Pages: 569-576
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Inhibin A and inhibin B in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome during treatment with FSH to induce mono-ovulation

R. A. Anderson,  N. P. Groome,  D. T. Baird, 
  • Pages: 577-584
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

A randomized trial of short-term treatment of Graves' disease with high-dose carbimazole plus thyroxine versus low-dose carbimazole

Stefan K. G. Grebe,  Colin M. Feek,  Henry C. Ford,  Jocelyn N. Fagerström,  Diane P. Cordwell,  John W. Delahunt,  Robyn J. Toomath, 
  • Pages: 585-592
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Functional evidence for two types of parathyroid adenoma

P. D'Amour,  J. Weisnagel,  J. H. Brossard,  L. G. Ste-Marie,  L. Rousseau,  R. Lepage, 
  • Pages: 593-601
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Pulsatile secretion of ACTH and cortisol in premenopausal women: effect of obesity and body fat distribution

Renato Pasquali,  Domenico Biscotti,  Giulio Spinucci,  Valentina Vicennati,  Alessandro David Genazzani,  Laura Sgarbi,  Francesco Casimirri, 
  • Pages: 603-612
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Beneficial effects of long-term GH replacement therapy on quality of life in adults with GH deficiency

Lena Wirén,  Bengt-Åke Bengtsson,  Gudmundur Johannsson, 
  • Pages: 613-620
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

The acute effect of dexamethasone on plasma leptin concentrations and the relationships between fasting leptin, the IGF-I/IGFBP system, dehydroepiandrosterone, androstenedione and testosterone in an elderly population

J. A. M. J. L. Janssen,  N. A. T. M. Huizenga,  R. P. Stolk,  D. E. Grobbee,  H. A. P. Pols,  F. H. De Jong,  A. M. F. Attanasio,  W. F. Blum,  S. W. J. Lamberts, 
  • Pages: 621-626
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

The low-dose dexamethasone suppression test in patients with adrenal incidentalomas: comparisons with clinically euadrenal subjects and patients with Cushing's syndrome

S. Tsagarakis,  P. Kokkoris,  C. Roboti,  C. Malagari,  J. Kaskarelis,  V. Vlassopoulou,  C. Alevizaki,  N. Thalassinos, 
  • Pages: 627-633
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

TSH suppression combined with carbimazole for Graves' disease: effect on remission and relapse rates

Pascal Pujol,  Abdul Osman,  Sophie Grabar,  Jean-Pierre Daurès,  Florence Galtier-Dereure,  Catherine Boegner,  Line Baldet,  Regine Raye,  Jacques Bringer,  Claude Jaffiol, 
  • Pages: 635-640
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Serum growth hormone (GH) binding protein, IGF-I and IGFBP-3 in patients with β-thalassaemia major and the effect of GH treatment

L. C. K. Low,  M. C. Postel-Vinay,  E. Y. W. Kwan,  P. T. Cheung, 
  • Pages: 641-646
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Expression of an orphan nuclear receptor DAX-1 in human pituitary adenomas

Shoichiro Ikuyama,  Yi-Ming Mu,  Kenji Ohe,  Hiroyuki Nakagaki,  Takeo Fukushima,  Ryoichi Takayanagi,  Hajime Nawata, 
  • Pages: 647-654
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Effectiveness of chronic treatment with alendronate in the osteoporosis of Cushing's disease

Carolina Di Somma,  Annamaria Colao,  Rosario Pivonello,  Michele Klain,  Antongiulio Faggiano,  Francesca S. Tripodi,  Bartolomeo Merola,  Marco Salvatore,  Gaetano Lombardi, 
  • Pages: 655-662
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Case Reports

Normal final height and apparent cure after pituitary irradiation for Cushing's disease in childhood: long-term follow-up of anterior pituitary function

L. B. Johnston,  A. B. Grossmann,  P. N. Plowman,  G. M. Besser,  M. O. Savage, 
  • Pages: 663-667
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Letters to the Editors

Effects of testosterone treatment on plasma melatonin levels in male hypogonadism

Metin Ozata,  Zeynel Beyhan, 
  • Pages: 669-670
  • First Published: 25 December 2001

Letter to the Editors

Systemic lupus erythematosus after pituitary adenomectomy in a patient with Cushing's disease

Yumi Noguchi,  Hajime Tamai,  Kan-ichiro Fujisawa,  Jun Nagano,  Toshio Mukuta,  Gen Komaki,  Sunao Masubayashi,  Chiharu Kubo,  Motomichi Torisu,  Hiroyuki Nakagaki,  Shuhei Imayama, 
  • Pages: 670-672
  • First Published: 25 December 2001