Adrenal ganglioneuromas: Incidentalomas with misleading clinical and imaging features

Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-105

  Linos, Dimitrios ^a   Tsirlis, Theodoros ^a   Kapralou, Athina ^a   Kiriakopoulos, Andreas ^a   Tsakayannis, Dimitrios ^a   Papaioannou, Dimitrios ^a  

^a HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

ADRENAL GANGLIONEUROMA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GANGLIONEUROMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENTALOMA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650177339     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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