NOUN
- a vascular tumor of the adrenal gland; hypersecretion of epinephrine results in intermittent or sustained hypertension
How To Use phaeochromocytoma In A Sentence
- Increased metabolic rate is rarely the main cause, except with an overactive thyroid or phaeochromocytoma, a rare tumour which produces excess adrenaline to stimulate our brown adipose tissue.
- Histology, however, showed a large adenoma of the adrenal cortex; a phaeochromocytoma could not be detected.
- Phaeochromocytomas are rare, can be managed with minimal morbidity if recognized early.
- He improved the way in which patients with phaeochromocytoma were prepared for surgery by characterising the way in which these tumours released their hormones.
- We present two cases of female caucasian patients aged 40 and 63 years respectively admitted following severe stressful events who met the diagnostic criteria of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy, namely acute chest pain, transient akinesis or dyskinesia of the left ventricle, new dynamic electrocardiogram changes and no significant epicardial coronary artery disease in the absence of recent head trauma, intracranial bleeding, phaeochromocytoma, myocarditis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. BioMed Central - Latest articles
- To exclude the possibility of phaeochromocytoma, case 1 underwent computed tomography and cases 3 and 4 underwent isotopic imaging.