Adrenalectomy for huge solid pheochromocytoma: a challenging surgery or piece of cake?

Pheochromocytoma (PCC) is an uncommon adrenal tumor that is occasionally diagnosed during the work up for patients with uncontrolled hypertension. Treatment of PCC is mainly surgical. This case represents the largest PCC reported to date, which was safely removed.

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Autores principales: Labib, Mahmoud, Ismail, Asmaa, Elmansy, Hazem, Shahrour, Walid, Prowse, Owen, Kotb, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6705450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31462986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz255
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author Labib, Mahmoud
Ismail, Asmaa
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spelling pubmed-67054502019-08-28 Adrenalectomy for huge solid pheochromocytoma: a challenging surgery or piece of cake? Labib, Mahmoud Ismail, Asmaa Elmansy, Hazem Shahrour, Walid Prowse, Owen Kotb, Ahmed J Surg Case Rep Case Report Pheochromocytoma (PCC) is an uncommon adrenal tumor that is occasionally diagnosed during the work up for patients with uncontrolled hypertension. Treatment of PCC is mainly surgical. This case represents the largest PCC reported to date, which was safely removed. Oxford University Press 2019-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6705450/ /pubmed/31462986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz255 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Adrenalectomy for huge solid pheochromocytoma: a challenging surgery or piece of cake?
title Adrenalectomy for huge solid pheochromocytoma: a challenging surgery or piece of cake?
title_full Adrenalectomy for huge solid pheochromocytoma: a challenging surgery or piece of cake?
title_fullStr Adrenalectomy for huge solid pheochromocytoma: a challenging surgery or piece of cake?
title_full_unstemmed Adrenalectomy for huge solid pheochromocytoma: a challenging surgery or piece of cake?
title_short Adrenalectomy for huge solid pheochromocytoma: a challenging surgery or piece of cake?
title_sort adrenalectomy for huge solid pheochromocytoma: a challenging surgery or piece of cake?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6705450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31462986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz255
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