Changing trends in the management of phaeochromocytoma

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 117-120

  Geoghegan, J G ^a,b   Emberton, M ^a   Bloom, S R ^a   Lynn, J A ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 131; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 0031963034     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.02875.x     Document Type: Article

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