Abdominal ganglioneuromas in adults

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 110-113

  Kouriefs, C ^a,b   Leris, A C A ^a   Mokbel, K ^a   Grossman, A B ^a   Reznek, R ^a   Carpenter, R ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adrenal tumours; Ganglioneuromas; Paragangliomas

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL GANGLION; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADRENAL MEDULLA; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; SURGICAL APPROACH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMANS; MALE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037632598     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071107     Document Type: Article

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