Needle biopsy of incidentally discovered adrenal masses is rarely informative and potentially hazardous

Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 497-504

  Quayle, Frank J ^a   Spitler, Jennifer A ^a   Pierce, Richard A ^a   Lairmore, Terry C ^b   Moley, Jeffrey F ^a   Brunt, L Michael ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL BIOPSY; ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUODENUM HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LIVER HEMATOMA; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WARD; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PARAGANGLIOMA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 35348869734     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2007.07.013     Document Type: Article

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