Cerebrovascular manifestations of pheochromocytoma and the implications of a missed diagnosis

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 378-381

  Majic, Tamara ^a   Aiyagari, Venkatesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral vasospasm; Hypertension; Pheochromocytoma; Stroke

Indexed keywords

METADRENALIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NORMETADRENALIN; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; PROPRANOLOL; RAMIPRIL; STEROID; TROPONIN;

ADRENAL CYST; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAPHORESIS; DISORIENTATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PALPITATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; HYPOXEMIA; KIDNEY CYST; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MONOPLEGIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARALYSIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SIDE EFFECT; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; STROKE; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULITIS; ADRENAL TUMOR; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME;

EID: 58849092418     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-008-9105-8     Document Type: Article

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