Is it rare to have two adrenal diseases combined?

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 911-

  Omura, Masao ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cushing's syndrome; Primary aldosteronism

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL SCINTISCANNING; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSHING SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; NOTE;

ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICAL ADENOMA; CUSHING SYNDROME; HUMANS; HYPERALDOSTERONISM;

EID: 0036857368     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.911     Document Type: Editorial

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