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Whereas in men immunologic measurements of androgens are quite adequate for measuring TT levels, they must be cautiously evaluated in the lower level range in women for reasons of insufficient sensitivity and accuracy64. Consequently, a strength of the present study was the use of LC-MS/MS-based...
Method: 12 PCOS patients (median age 28 yrs, range 18-31) and 11 weight matched, control women having regular menses and without PCOS (median age 30 yrs, range 19-33) were recruited. Blood samples were collected after an overnight fast at four day intervals on 10 consecutive occasions. ...
In patients with gynaecological cancer or non-malignant disorders the radioimmunologically determined SHBG levels lay within the range of female controls. The SHBG binding capacity of patients with adenocarcinoma of the uterus, benign tumors or non-malignant genital disorders was lower than in normal ...