Pituitary, adrenal and thyroid incidentalomas

Endocrine-Related Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-150

  Turner, H E ^a   Moore, N R ^a   Byrne, J V ^a   Wass, J A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENAL SCINTISCANNING; ADRENAL TUMOR; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ECTOPIC HORMONE PRODUCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; REVIEW; THYROID TUMOR;

EID: 0031862747     PISSN: 13510088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/erc.0.0050131     Document Type: Review

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