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Severe Hyperkalemia and Bilateral Adrenal Metastasis

Adrenal metastases are a common finding in metastatic lung and breast cancer. Often there are no clinical symptoms suggesting them. In this paper, we present a case of a 66-year-old man with metastatic lung cancer suffering from severe hyperkaliemia due to hypoaldosteronism as a result of bilateral...

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Autores principales: Nagler, Michael, Müller, Beat, Briner, Verena, Winterhalder, Ralph
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20204181
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/831979
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author Nagler, Michael
Müller, Beat
Briner, Verena
Winterhalder, Ralph
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Winterhalder, Ralph
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description Adrenal metastases are a common finding in metastatic lung and breast cancer. Often there are no clinical symptoms suggesting them. In this paper, we present a case of a 66-year-old man with metastatic lung cancer suffering from severe hyperkaliemia due to hypoaldosteronism as a result of bilateral adrenal metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-28312022010-03-04 Severe Hyperkalemia and Bilateral Adrenal Metastasis Nagler, Michael Müller, Beat Briner, Verena Winterhalder, Ralph J Oncol Case Report Adrenal metastases are a common finding in metastatic lung and breast cancer. Often there are no clinical symptoms suggesting them. In this paper, we present a case of a 66-year-old man with metastatic lung cancer suffering from severe hyperkaliemia due to hypoaldosteronism as a result of bilateral adrenal metastasis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009 2010-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2831202/ /pubmed/20204181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/831979 Text en Copyright © 2009 Michael Nagler et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Nagler, Michael
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Briner, Verena
Winterhalder, Ralph
Severe Hyperkalemia and Bilateral Adrenal Metastasis
title Severe Hyperkalemia and Bilateral Adrenal Metastasis
title_full Severe Hyperkalemia and Bilateral Adrenal Metastasis
title_fullStr Severe Hyperkalemia and Bilateral Adrenal Metastasis
title_full_unstemmed Severe Hyperkalemia and Bilateral Adrenal Metastasis
title_short Severe Hyperkalemia and Bilateral Adrenal Metastasis
title_sort severe hyperkalemia and bilateral adrenal metastasis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20204181
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/831979
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