Radiographic evaluation of the incidental adrenal lesion

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-72

  Del Pizzo, Joseph J ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADRENAL CANCER; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL CYST; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENAL TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MYELOLIPOMA; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSEUDOTUMOR; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING;

ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33744462096     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-006-0044-7     Document Type: Review

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