Phaeochromocytoma in black South Africans - a 30-year audit

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 184-188

  Huddle, K R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 131;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; NEWBORN DEATH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AFRICA; SWEATING; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 79952386112     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/samj.4320     Document Type: Review

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