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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
• Working Group Membership: General practitioners, pathologists, endocrinologists, clinical biochemists, laboratory technologists, member of the public