Malignant pheochromocytoma lacking clinical features of catecholamine excess until the late stage

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 820-825

  Honda, Munehiro ^a   Uesugi, Kazuto ^a   Yamazaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Dezawa, Akira ^a   Mizuguchi, Kunio ^a   Yamaji, Tohru ^b   Ishibashi, Miyuki ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ministry of Finance   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Noradrenaline; Osseous metastasis; Paraganglioma

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENAL TUMOR; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BONE TUMOR; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; SCINTISCANNING; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; TACHYCARDIA;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; CATECHOLAMINES; DOPAMINE; EPINEPHRINE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; SWEATING, GUSTATORY; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0034303019     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.820     Document Type: Article

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