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. 2008 Dec:1148:462-8.
doi: 10.1196/annals.1410.081.

Pheochromocytoma: an endocrine stress mimicking disorder

Vitaly Kantorovich  1 , Graeme Eisenhofer, Karel Pacak
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Pheochromocytoma: an endocrine stress mimicking disorder

Vitaly Kantorovich et al. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008 Dec.

Abstract

A pheochromocytoma is an endocrine tumor that can uniquely mimic numerous stress-associated disorders, with variations in clinical manifestations resulting from different patterns of catecholamine secretion and actions of released catecholamines on physiological systems.

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Pathophysiology of stress and pheochromocytoma.
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Similarities between stress and pheochromocytoma disease course
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