Incidentalomas of the adrenal gland: Diagnostic and therapeutic implications

American Surgeon

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 356-360

  Bastounis, Elias A ^a,b   Karayiannakis, Anastasios J ^a   Anapliotou, Margarita L G ^a   Nakopoulou, Lydia ^a   Makri, Georgia G ^a   Papalambros, Efstathios L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOLIPOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030940571     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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