Undiagnosed phaeochromocytoma masquerading as eclampsia

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Petrie, Joanne ^a   Lockie, Christopher ^a   Paolineli, Alex ^a   Stevens, Michele ^a   Smith, Mark ^a   Mitchell, Catharine ^a   Dubrey, Simon William ^a  

^a HILLINGDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISOPROLOL; CARBOPROST; ERGOMETRINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LABETALOL; MAGNESIUM; METOPROLOL; OXYTOCIN; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; PHENTOLAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECLAMPSIA; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; HYPOTENSION; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 84862932902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.10.2011.4922     Document Type: Article

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