Adrenal incidentaloma: An overview of hormonal data from the national italian study group

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Volumn 47, Issue 4-6, 1997, Pages 284-289

  Mantero, F ^a   Masini, A M ^a   Opocher, G ^a   Giovagnetti, M ^a   Arnaldi, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adrenal incidentaloma; Adrenocortical cancer; Epidemiology; Pheochromocytoma

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; RENIN; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; TESTOSTERONE; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

ADRENAL CANCER; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ALDOSTERONE URINE LEVEL; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CATECHOLAMINE URINE LEVEL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; HYPERCORTISOLISM; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALDOSTERONE; CATECHOLAMINES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; ITALY; MALE; RENIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

EID: 0030937464     PISSN: 16632818     EISSN: 16632826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000185478     Document Type: Article

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