ea0012p119 | Steroids to include Cushing's | SFE2006
Walker CJ
, Cowan DA
, Taylor NF
, Kicman AT
Methyl oximetrimethylsilyl (MO-TMS) derivatisation with gas chromatographymass spectrometric (GC-MS) analysis has been well established in the analysis of glucocorticoids and is still used in many laboratories for profiling endogenous steroids for clinical purposes. There appears to be a clinical need to extend the analysis to xenobiotic glucocorticoids, primarily to elucidate cases of patients presenting with adverse symptoms associated with glucocorticoid excess,...