Adrenal pheochromocytoma remains a frequently overlooked diagnosis

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 212-215

  Lo, Chung Yau ^a   Lam, King Yin ^a   Wat, Ming Sun ^a   Lam, Karen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METASTASIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METANEPHRINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PLOIDIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

EID: 0034026702     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(00)00296-8     Document Type: Article

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