Surgical implications of underestimation of adrenal tumour size by computed tomography

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 385-387

  Lau, H ^a   Lo, C Y ^a   Lam, K Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032970370     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1999.01048.x     Document Type: Article

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