Large bilateral adrenal metastases in non-small cell lung cancer

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Karanikiotis, Charisios ^a   Tentes, Apostolos Anto ^b   Markakidis, Sotirios ^b   Vafiadis, Konstantinos ^b  

^a 424 General Military Hospital   (Greece)

^b Didimotichon General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENAL NECROSIS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG LOBE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 13844281233     PISSN: 14777819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-2-37     Document Type: Article

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