Primary Adrenal Lymphoma Presenting as Adrenal Insufficiency: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-10

  Zar, Tausif ^a   Khan, Faraz ^a   Petit Jr , William ^a   Bernene, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHROMOGRANIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOKERATIN; DOXORUBICIN; FLUDROCORTISONE; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METFORMIN; METOPROLOL; NATEGLINIDE; PIOGLITAZONE; PRAVASTATIN; PREDNISONE; QUINAPRIL; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BIOPSY; BLOOD CULTURE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGING; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LITERATURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTICEMIA; SIDE EFFECT; ULTRASOUND;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MALE; PREDNISONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0346970950     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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