Incidence of adrenal involvement and assessing adrenal function in patients with renal cell carcinoma: Is ipsilateral adrenalectomy indispensable during radical nephrectomy?

BJU International

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 526-529

  Yokoyama, Hiroshi ^a   Tanaka, Masatoshi ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenal glands; Adrenalectomy; Adrenocortical function; Radical nephrectomy; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEPHRECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 14644416628     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05332.x     Document Type: Review

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