CT and MR imaging of the adrenal glands in cortisol-secreting tumors

Anticancer Research

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2923-2926

  Lumachi, Franco ^a   Marchesi, Paolo ^b   Miotto, Diego ^a   Motta, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b S ANTONIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adrenal imaging; Adrenocortical tumors; Cancer; CT; Cushing's syndrome; MR; Review

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CUSHING SYNDROME; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80051663116     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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