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Clinical and Pathological Characteristics of Hypertensive and Normotensive Adrenal Pheochromocytomas.
Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association - 1 Jun 2016
Lu Y, Li P, Gan W, Zhao X, Shen S, Feng W, Xu Q, Bi Y, Guo H, Zhu D
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INTRODUCTION: Pheochromocytoma/Paraganglioma (PPGL) present with an extremely variable clinical picture which ranges from dramatic, to mild, to silent, depending on tumor attitude to release catecholamines. Hypertension is the hallmark of these tumors but is not always present. Distinct differences of clinical manifestations exist in hypertensive pheochromocytomas (HPs) and normotensive pheochromocytomas (NPs),...
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