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[Disseminated adrenocortical carcinoma: case report].
Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare neoplasm occurring with a frequency of 1-2 cases per million. It is characterized by significant malignancy with mean survival of about 28 months, and in the presence of documented metastases survival is shorter up to 8 months. This type of a tumor is slightly more frequent in women (58.6%) than in men (41.4%). Etiology of adrenocortical carcinoma is still unc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Roentgenology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0361-803X,1546-3141
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.171.3.9725326