Clinical experience with incidentally discovered pheochromocytoma

Journal of Urology

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1566-1568

  Miyajima, Akira ^a,b   Nakashima, Jun ^a   Baba, Shiro ^a   Tachibana, Masaaki ^a   Nakamura, Kaoru ^a   Murai, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

adrenal gland neoplasms; carcinoma; pheochromocytoma

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NORADRENALIN; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0030938820     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)64794-3     Document Type: Article

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