Pheochromocytomas: Tendency to degenerate and cause paroxysmal hypertension

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 923-927

  Ito, Yukio ^a   Obara, Takao ^a   Yamashita, Tomoyuki ^a   Kanbe, Masako ^a   Iihara, Masatoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2A; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029786518     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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