Pheochromocytoma: Unusual presentation of a rare disease

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 827-828

  Hamdan, Ashraf ^a   Hirsch, Dania ^a   Green, Pnina ^a   Neumann, Avivit ^a   Drozd, Tamara ^a   Molad, Yair ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Low back pain; Medullary thyroid carcinoma; Multiple endocrine neoplasia II syndrome; Pheochromocytoma; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE; CALCITONIN; CHROMOGRANIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; IODINE 131; METADRENALIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; PROPRANOLOL; PROTEIN S 100; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TECHNETIUM 99M; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

ADRENAL GLAND EXAMINATION; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; ADRENALIN URINE LEVEL; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE LESION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER PAIN; CASE REPORT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DNA DETERMINATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER INJURY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; MUTATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; SCINTIGRAPHY; SIBLING; SPINE METASTASIS; STAINING; SWEATING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THYROID GLAND; THYROID GLAND EXAMINATION; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR VOLUME; URINE LEVEL; X RAY;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENALECTOMY; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2A; OSTEOLYSIS; PELVIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036792421     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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