Emergency resection of an extra-adrenal phaeochromocytoma: Wrong or right? A case report and a review of literature

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 258-265

  Bos, J C ^a,b   Toorians, A W F T ^a   van Mourik, J C ^a   Strack van Schijndel, R J M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 131; ADRENALIN; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; DIAMORPHINE; DOPAMINE; ESMOLOL; INOTROPIC AGENT; KETAMINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NITROUS OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; OCTREOTIDE; OXYGEN; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; PHENTOLAMINE; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; MORBIDITY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; RARE DISEASE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SHOCK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ADRENAL TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PULMONARY EDEMA; SHOCK; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0642303660     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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