Primary malignant melanoma of adrenal gland in a 41-yr-old woman

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-105

  Zalatnai, Attila ^a   Szende, Béla ^a   Tóth, Miklós ^b   Rácz, Károly ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Second Department of Medicine   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; PAMIDRONIC ACID; STEROID;

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADULT; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER GROWTH; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCALCEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; LUNG METASTASIS; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; BONE NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA;

EID: 0037853194     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/EP:14:1:101     Document Type: Letter

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