Letter to the Editor
Supine or Sitting? Economic and other considerations for use of plasma metanephrines for diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma
Graeme Eisenhofer,
Graeme Eisenhofer
Institute of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine, Dresden
Department of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
Search for more papers by this author Roland Därr,
Roland Därr
Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Search for more papers by this author Christina Pamporaki,
Christina Pamporaki
Department of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
Search for more papers by this author Mirko Peitzsch,
Mirko Peitzsch
Institute of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine, Dresden
Search for more papers by this author Stefan Bornstein,
Stefan Bornstein
Department of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
Search for more papers by this author Jacques W.M. Lenders,
Jacques W.M. Lenders
Department of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Graeme Eisenhofer,
Graeme Eisenhofer
Institute of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine, Dresden
Department of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
Search for more papers by this author Roland Därr,
Roland Därr
Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Search for more papers by this author Christina Pamporaki,
Christina Pamporaki
Department of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
Search for more papers by this author Mirko Peitzsch,
Mirko Peitzsch
Institute of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine, Dresden
Search for more papers by this author Stefan Bornstein,
Stefan Bornstein
Department of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
Search for more papers by this author Jacques W.M. Lenders,
Jacques W.M. Lenders
Department of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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First published: 04 September 2014
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References
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