Gold E M
Postgrad Med. 1977 Nov;62(5):105-14. doi: 10.1080/00325481.1977.11714675.
Pituitary disorders can be diagnosed more readily and precisely as a result of two recent advances: development of radioimmunoassays for direct measurement of each pituitary hormone in blood, and availability of hypothalamic hormones for use in provocative tests for secretion of thyroid-stimulating hormone, prolactin, and gonadotropic hormones.
由于最近的两项进展，垂体疾病能够更容易且精确地被诊断出来：一是用于直接测量血液中每种垂体激素的放射免疫测定法的发展；二是可用于促甲状腺激素、催乳素及促性腺激素分泌激发试验的下丘脑激素的可得性。
