Secondary amenorrhoea due to pheochromocytoma: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Pheochromocytoma is a chromaffin cell catecholamine-secreting tumour originating from the adrenal medulla. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here an unusual presentation of pheochromocytoma with secondary amenorrhoea and its resolution after medical treatment with the alpha adrenergic block...

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Autores principales: Wakil, Ammar, Atkin, Stephen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2481240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18620585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-30
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description INTRODUCTION: Pheochromocytoma is a chromaffin cell catecholamine-secreting tumour originating from the adrenal medulla. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here an unusual presentation of pheochromocytoma with secondary amenorrhoea and its resolution after medical treatment with the alpha adrenergic blocker, Phenoxybenzamine. CONCLUSION: Pheochromocytoma is a rare cause of secondary amenorrhoea.
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spelling pubmed-24812402008-07-23 Secondary amenorrhoea due to pheochromocytoma: a case report Wakil, Ammar Atkin, Stephen Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: Pheochromocytoma is a chromaffin cell catecholamine-secreting tumour originating from the adrenal medulla. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here an unusual presentation of pheochromocytoma with secondary amenorrhoea and its resolution after medical treatment with the alpha adrenergic blocker, Phenoxybenzamine. CONCLUSION: Pheochromocytoma is a rare cause of secondary amenorrhoea. BioMed Central 2008-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2481240/ /pubmed/18620585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-30 Text en Copyright © 2008 Wakil and Atkin; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Secondary amenorrhoea due to pheochromocytoma: a case report
title Secondary amenorrhoea due to pheochromocytoma: a case report
title_full Secondary amenorrhoea due to pheochromocytoma: a case report
title_fullStr Secondary amenorrhoea due to pheochromocytoma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Secondary amenorrhoea due to pheochromocytoma: a case report
title_short Secondary amenorrhoea due to pheochromocytoma: a case report
title_sort secondary amenorrhoea due to pheochromocytoma: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2481240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18620585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-30
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