Pheochromocytoma in patients suspected of harboring adrenal metastasis: Management and clinical predictors

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 967-972

  Yu, Run ^a   Nissen, Nicholas N ^a,b   Dhall, Deepti ^a   Wei, Meng ^c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Cedars Sinai Medical Care Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADRENAL BIOPSY; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADRENAL TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 65849208927     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.14.8.967     Document Type: Article

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