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An overlooked cause of glucocorticoid deficiency?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology volume 5, pages 362–363 (2009)Cite this article

The traditional view of nonclassic congenital adrenal hyperplasia is that affected individuals are not glucocorticoid-deficient. The results of a French study now cast doubts on this assumption, however, and raise important issues for classification and management of patients with this common genetic disorder.

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Krone, N., Stewart, P. An overlooked cause of glucocorticoid deficiency?. Nat Rev Endocrinol 5, 362–363 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2009.107

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