PAROXYSMAL HYPERTENSION WITH CONCOMITANT SWELLING OF THE THYROID DUE TO - PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA OF THE RIGHT ADRENAL GLAND. CURE BY SURGICAL REMOVAL OF THE PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA
| Autor: | Julius Bauer, Elmer Belt |
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| Rok vydání: | 1947 |
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endocrine system
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Clinical Biochemistry Adrenal Gland Neoplasm Adrenal Gland Neoplasms Thyroid Gland Blood Pressure Pheochromocytoma Biochemistry Endocrinology Paraganglioma Neoplasms Internal medicine Adrenal Glands medicine Humans Sympathetic Paraganglioma business.industry Biochemistry (medical) Thyroid medicine.disease Paroxysmal hypertension medicine.anatomical_structure Epinephrine Hypertension Adrenal medulla business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 7:30-46 |
| ISSN: | 1945-7197 0021-972X |
| DOI: | 10.1210/jcem-7-1-30 |
| Popis: | THE CLINICAL picture, pathology and treatment of tumors, originating from the chromaffin tissue of the adrenal medulla (pheochromocytoma), or from the genetically and morphologically identical chromaffin tissue adjacent to the sympathetic chain (paraganglioma), and their symptomatology, the suprarenal sympathetic syndrome, is well known today, Belt and Powell (7), Wells and Boman (46), and Howard and Barker (25). The case we are about to report is unusual since the patient presented a symptom hitherto not described in the literature, i.e., paroxysmal swelling of the thyroid gland, accompanying and simultaneous with paroxysmal hypertensive crises. Furthermore, there were extremely rapid and excessive variations in blood pressure, which usually are not associated with the syndrome. In 1934 Belt and Powell (7) reviewed the sixty cases already reported in the literature, and simultaneously presented a case of their own in which the pheochromocytoma, weighing 1000 gm. and containing 2 gm. of adrenalin per 100 ... |
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