Management approaches to adrenal incidentalomas: A view from Ancona, Italy

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-125

  Mantero, Franco ^b   Arnaldi, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HYPERALDOSTERONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

LEPTOSPIRA;

EID: 0034100733     PISSN: 08898529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8529(05)70119-5     Document Type: Article

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