Unknown primary cancer presenting as an adrenal mass: Frequency and implications for diagnostic evaluation of adrenal incidentalomas

Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1115-1122

  Lee, J E ^a   Evans, D B ^a   Hickey, R C ^a   Sherman, S I ^a   Gagel, R F ^a   Abbruzzese, M C ^a   Abbruzzese, J L ^a   Shaha, A R ^a   Udelsman, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0031761919     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.1998.92009     Document Type: Article

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