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Adenoma and Carcinoma, Adrenal Cortex, Mouse

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Adrenocortical adenomas are small and are often not visible grossly. Adrenocortical carcinomas may appear as reddish-yellow nodular masses in the adrenal, or may exist as a generalized enlargement of the adrenal gland.

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  1. Charles H. Frith
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Emeritus Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, 01772, Southborough, MA, USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, 3000, Hannover 61, West Germany

    Ulrich Mohr

  3. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, 01772, Southborough, MA, USA

    Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  4. Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

    Charles C. Capen D.V.M., Ph.D. (Professor of Pathobiology and Endocrinology) (Professor of Pathobiology and Endocrinology)

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Frith, C.H. (1983). Adenoma and Carcinoma, Adrenal Cortex, Mouse. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D., Capen, C.C. (eds) Endocrine System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96720-7_13

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