Graves’ disease allied with multiple pheochromocytoma

Pheochromocytoma is an uncommon cause of high blood pressure touching adults. The combination of severe hypertension in the triad of headache, sweating, and tachycardia should suggest this diagnosis; this clinical picture is similar to that of hyperthyroidism. We report the case of a 22-year-old pat...

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Autores principales: Housni, Brahim, Elharroudi, Tijani, Soufi, Mehdi, Bouziane, Mohammed, Azzouzi, Abderahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23776912
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.109656
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author Housni, Brahim
Elharroudi, Tijani
Soufi, Mehdi
Bouziane, Mohammed
Azzouzi, Abderahim
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description Pheochromocytoma is an uncommon cause of high blood pressure touching adults. The combination of severe hypertension in the triad of headache, sweating, and tachycardia should suggest this diagnosis; this clinical picture is similar to that of hyperthyroidism. We report the case of a 22-year-old patient with multiple pheochromocytoma associated with Graves’ disease revealed by malignant hypertension and discussed the difficulties of the diagnosis and the treatment approach.
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spelling pubmed-36832142013-06-17 Graves’ disease allied with multiple pheochromocytoma Housni, Brahim Elharroudi, Tijani Soufi, Mehdi Bouziane, Mohammed Azzouzi, Abderahim Indian J Endocrinol Metab Case Report Pheochromocytoma is an uncommon cause of high blood pressure touching adults. The combination of severe hypertension in the triad of headache, sweating, and tachycardia should suggest this diagnosis; this clinical picture is similar to that of hyperthyroidism. We report the case of a 22-year-old patient with multiple pheochromocytoma associated with Graves’ disease revealed by malignant hypertension and discussed the difficulties of the diagnosis and the treatment approach. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3683214/ /pubmed/23776912 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.109656 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Graves’ disease allied with multiple pheochromocytoma
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23776912
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.109656
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