Adrenal tumors: 10-Year experience at Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital and literature review

Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 450-458

  Huang, Shu Pin ^a   Chou, Yii Her ^a   Wu, Ming Tsang ^a   Chai, Chee Yin ^a   Tsai, Hsiu Nan ^a   Li, Ching Chia ^a   Shen, Jung Chung ^a   Wu, Wen Jeng ^b   Wang, Chii Jye ^a   Huang, Chun Hsiung ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MUNICIPAL HSIAO KANG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Treatment; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANDROGEN;

ADRENAL BIOPSY; ADRENAL CANCER; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL CYST; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MYELOLIPOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIMARY HYPERALDOSTERONISM; SEX RATIO; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA;

EID: 0036763755     PISSN: 02575655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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