An overview of pheochromocytoma: History, current concepts, vagaries, and diagnostic challenges

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1073, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-20

  Manger, William M ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b National Hypertension Association   (United States)

Author keywords

Familial; Imaging; Metanephrine; Normetanephrine; Treatment

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 131; ADRENALIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; CREATININE; DOPA; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; THYROTROPIN; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

ACRODYNIA; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANXIETY; AUTONOMIC HYPERREFLEXIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CARCINOID SYNDROME; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; CUSHING DISEASE; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSAUTONOMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; HEADACHE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERCATECHOLAMINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MERCURIALISM; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANIC; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; SYMPTOM;

EID: 33751107320     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1353.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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