Phaeochromocytoma and thrombotic microangiopathy: Favourable outcome despite advanced renal failure

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 754-756

  Schweizer, Heiko ^a   Boehm, Joachim ^a   Winterer, Jan Thorsten ^a   Wild, Damian ^a   Neumann, Hartmut P H ^a   Wiech, Thorsten ^a   Stubanus, Mike ^a   Kuehn, E Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PREDNISONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CAUCASIAN; DIURESIS; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LETTER; LIMB; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGURIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PETECHIA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SCLEROSIS; SOMNOLENCE; SWEATING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREMOR; URINE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHIES;

EID: 77955751386     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.077511     Document Type: Letter

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