Unilateral active adrenal tuberculosis featuring persistent intermittent fever

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 463-466

  Ikoma, Aki ^a   Namai, Kazuyuki ^a   Saito, Tomoyuki ^a   Kawano, Takahisa ^a   Saito, Takako ^a   Kasono, Keizo ^a   Tamemoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamada, Shigeki ^a   Kawakami, Masanobu ^a   Ishikawa, San E ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute infection; Adrenal mass; Adrenal tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENALECTOMY; AGED; ANAMNESIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPUTUM CULTURE; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; URINE CULTURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; AGED; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, ENDOCRINE;

EID: 8844245675     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.51.463     Document Type: Review

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