Diagnosis and treatment of adrenal tumors: A single-center experience with 238 cases

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 433-437

  Gomha, Abdul Monem ^a   Osman, Yasser ^a,b   El Mekresh, Mohsen ^a   Abou El Ghar, Mohamed ^a   Eraky, Ibrahim ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Adrenal mass; Adrenalectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL CYST; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INCIDENTALOMA; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOLIPOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72049098187     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000251184     Document Type: Article

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