Detecting pheochromocytoma: defining the most sensitive test.

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Published in Ann Surg on January 01, 2006

Authors

Ulrich Guller1, Joe Turek, Steve Eubanks, Elizabeth R Delong, Daniel Oertli, Jerome M Feldman

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, Divisions of General Surgery and Surgical Research, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. uguller@yahoo.com

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