Fine-needle aspiration cytology of adrenal masses in noncancer patients: Clinicoradiologic and histologic correlations in functioning and nonfunctioning tumors

Cancer

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 323-329

  Lumachi, Franco ^a   Borsato, Simonetta ^a   Brandes, Alba A ^b   Boccagni, Patrizia ^a   Tregnaghi, Alberto ^b   Angelini, Federico ^a   Favia, Gennaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adrenal cortex neoplasm; Adrenal gland neoplasm; Cytology; Diagnosis; Imaging guided; Pheochromocytoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BENIGN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NEEDLE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0035950328     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.9047     Document Type: Article

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