Bilateral pheochromocytoma manifesting as acute shortness of breath after job loss

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-308

  Milanesi, Anna ^a   Ho, Andrew ^b   Ewing, Amanda ^b   Yu, Run ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEG EDEMA; LEG SWELLING; LETTER; LUNG CONGESTION; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PLEURA EFFUSION; QT INTERVAL; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA;

EID: 79959230216     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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