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Hypertension due to a giant aldosterone-secreting adenoma

Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham UK, felmeden{at}hotmail.com

Joan G Gearty

Department of pathology, City Hospital, Birmingham UK

Dee M Dawkins

Department of Radiology, City Hospital, Birmingham UK

Gareth Beevers

Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham UK

Key Words: aldosterone secreting tumour

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Journal of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System, Vol. 2, No. 1, 43-44 (2001)
DOI: 10.3317/jraas.2001.008


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