Traumatic haemorrhage into an occult phaeochromocytoma: Presentation and management in a patient with septic shock

Anaesthesia

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 428-432

  Saxena, N ^a   Parry Jones, A J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; CATECHOLAMINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LABETALOL; METADRENALIN; MORPHINE; NORADRENALIN; PHENOXYBENZAMINE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE RESECTION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; SEPTIC SHOCK;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; ILEUM; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40549102252     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05401.x     Document Type: Article

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