Cohort study of patients with adrenal lesions discovered incidentally

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1383-1391

  Muth, A ^a   Hammarstedt, L ^a   Hellstrom M ^a   Sigurjonsdottir H A ^a   Almqvist, E ^b   Wangberg B ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Skaraborgs Hospital Skövde   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052415993     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.7566     Document Type: Article

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