Adrenal imaging with MDCT: Nonneoplastic disease

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1128-1135

  Johnson, Pamela T ^a   Horton, Karen M ^a   Fishman, Elliot K ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal gland; Adrenal hyperplasia; Hemorrhage; Infection; MDCT; Pseudocyst

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL BIOPSY; ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENAL CYST; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENAL TUMOR; ANTICOAGULATION; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY HYPERALDOSTERONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; SEPSIS; STRESS;

ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349656671     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2551     Document Type: Article

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