The insulin-glucose tolerance test in pituitary growth retardation.
Open Access
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 40 (213), 508-512
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.40.213.508
Abstract
The test was performed on 12 patients diagnosed as constitutional growth retardation and on 15 normal controls with the same age distribution as the pituitary dwarfs; all 27 had a normal test. In inter -preting the insulin-glucose test, the decrease in blood sugar between 20 and 30 min. best differentiated the group of pituitary dwarfs. In this study the insulin-glucose tolerance test proved a better diagnostic aid than the metyrapone test.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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