Multiple organ failure as initial presentation of pheochromytoma

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 565-566

  Herbland, Alexandre ^a,b   Bui, Nam ^a   Rullier, Anne ^a   Vargas, Frederic ^a   Gruson, Didier ^a   Hilbert, Gilles ^a  

^a HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE FORT DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANURIA; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; ASYSTOLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CYANOSIS; CYTOLYSIS; DEATH; DEHYDRATION; DETERIORATION; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART PACING; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LIVER; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOCARDITIS; OLIGURIA; PANCREATITIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; Q WAVE; REHYDRATION; RESUSCITATION; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RHINITIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOCK; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUCTION; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA;

EID: 22444441842     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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