Surgical management of adrenal metastases

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 397, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 179-194

  Sancho, Juan J ^a,c   Triponez, Frédéric ^b   Montet, Xavier ^b   Sitges Serra, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adrenal biopsy; Adrenal imaging; Adrenal malignancy; Adrenal metastases; Incidentaloma

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL BIOPSY; ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; KIDNEY CANCER; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; WORKSHOP;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858864907     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-011-0889-1     Document Type: Review

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