Salivary cortisol as a diagnostic tool for Cushing's syndrome and adrenal insufficiency: improved screening by an automatic immunoassay.

  • Timo Deutschbein
  • Martina Broecker-Preuss
  • Joerg Flitsch
  • Andrea Jaeger
  • Ricarda Althoff
  • Martin K Walz
  • Klaus Mann
  • Stephan Petersenn

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Abstract

Salivary cortisol is increasingly used to assess patients with suspected hypo- and hypercortisolism. This study established disease-specific reference ranges for an automated electrochemiluminescence immunoassay (ECLIA).

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number4
ISSN0804-4643
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22214924