Diagnosis of renal and adrenal incidentalomas

Clinics in Family Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 505-524

  Higgins, James C ^a,b  

^a NAVAL HOSPITAL JACKSONVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL SCINTISCANNING; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; SEPTICEMIA; SOLID TUMOR;

EID: 0036764032     PISSN: 15225720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1522-5720(02)00039-9     Document Type: Article

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