Adrenal cortical adenoma with adrenalin-type neurosecretory granules clinically mimicking a pheochromocytoma

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1530-1533

  Ivsic, Tomislav ^a   Komorowski, Richard A ^a   Sudakoff, Gary S ^a   Wilson, Stuart D ^a   Datta, Milton W ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL MEDULLA TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA;

ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICAL ADENOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPINEPHRINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; SECRETORY VESICLES;

EID: 0036997955     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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