Clinically silent renal tumour producing erythropoietin [12]

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 128-129

  Wood, Lucille ^a   du Toit, Andrew ^a   Jacobs, Peter ^a  

^a Department of Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CALCIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LETTER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037327179     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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