Pheochromocytoma with normal urinary and plasma catecholamines but elevated plasma free metanephrines in a patient with adrenal incidentaloma

Endocrinologist

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-68

  Raber, Wolfgang ^a   Raffesberg, Wolfgang ^a   Kmen, Elisabeth ^a   Hamwi, Ahmad ^a   Niederle, Bruno ^a   Waldhäusl, Werner ^a   Roden, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Div of Endocrinology and Metabolism   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; METADRENALIN; NORADRENALIN; NORMETADRENALIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENALECTOMY; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CATECHOLAMINE URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PNEUMOTHORAX;

EID: 0033967338     PISSN: 10512144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019616-200010010-00010     Document Type: Article

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