Adrenal oncocytoma masquerading as a functional tumor

Adrenal oncocytoma is a rare entity, with 20 cases reported in literature. A functional oncocytoma is extremely rare. We present a case of adrenal oncocytoma in a hypertensive male who had elevated catecholamine levels, which improved after adrenalectomy with decrease in daily antihypertensive requi...

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Autores principales: Goel, Tanmaya, Thomas, Joseph, Garg, Shveta, Rao, Anuradha C. K., Reddy, Sreedhar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19675771
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.30275
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author Goel, Tanmaya
Thomas, Joseph
Garg, Shveta
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Reddy, Sreedhar
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description Adrenal oncocytoma is a rare entity, with 20 cases reported in literature. A functional oncocytoma is extremely rare. We present a case of adrenal oncocytoma in a hypertensive male who had elevated catecholamine levels, which improved after adrenalectomy with decrease in daily antihypertensive requirement.
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spelling pubmed-27215052009-08-12 Adrenal oncocytoma masquerading as a functional tumor Goel, Tanmaya Thomas, Joseph Garg, Shveta Rao, Anuradha C. K. Reddy, Sreedhar Indian J Urol Case Report Adrenal oncocytoma is a rare entity, with 20 cases reported in literature. A functional oncocytoma is extremely rare. We present a case of adrenal oncocytoma in a hypertensive male who had elevated catecholamine levels, which improved after adrenalectomy with decrease in daily antihypertensive requirement. Medknow Publications 2007 /pmc/articles/PMC2721505/ /pubmed/19675771 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.30275 Text en © Indian Journal of Urology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Goel, Tanmaya
Thomas, Joseph
Garg, Shveta
Rao, Anuradha C. K.
Reddy, Sreedhar
Adrenal oncocytoma masquerading as a functional tumor
title Adrenal oncocytoma masquerading as a functional tumor
title_full Adrenal oncocytoma masquerading as a functional tumor
title_fullStr Adrenal oncocytoma masquerading as a functional tumor
title_full_unstemmed Adrenal oncocytoma masquerading as a functional tumor
title_short Adrenal oncocytoma masquerading as a functional tumor
title_sort adrenal oncocytoma masquerading as a functional tumor
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19675771
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.30275
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