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Pheochromocytoma
PUBLISHED: April 1998

REVISED:January 2008 

TOPIC: Endocrine testing

SCOPE: Laboratory investigation

ABSTRACT: 
Pheochromocytoma is a rare cause of hypertension. This guideline highlights the appropriate laboratory investigations to diagnose an endocrine cause.

TARGET POPULATION: 
Patients with typical symptoms, hypertension refractory to multiple drug regimens, accelerated hypertension, known familial syndromes, paradoxic hypertensive responses to antihypertensives, hypertensive episodes during surgical procedures, incidental findings of an adrenal tumor

EXCLUSIONS: None specified

Summary: Pheochromocytoma
 

Guideline: Pheochromocytoma
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
  
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