Clinical analysis of 249 cases of adrenal tumors in a Chinese hospital

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 270-275

  Chen, Gang ^a   Yao, Jin ^a   Mou, Lunpan ^a   Fang, Xiaowen ^a   Huang, Huibin ^a   Liang, Jixing ^a   Li, Liantao ^a   Ye, Liefu ^a   Lin, Lixiang ^a   Wen, Junping ^a  

^a FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adrenal masses; Adrenal tumors; clinical analysis; Incidentalomas; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CHINESE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIMARY HYPERALDOSTERONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VIRILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; CHINA; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78049463270     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000314959     Document Type: Article

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