NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Mar 20 — Plasma free metanephrines is the best single test to diagnose pheochromocytoma, according to a multicenter cohort study reported in the March 20 issue of The Journal ...
Measurement of plasma or urinary catecholamines and their metabolites is the foundation of the biochemical diagnosis of pheochromocytoma; however, there is no consensus as to the most reliable assay.
For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at [email protected] In the paper chromatoelectrophoretic assay for G and combined NM and M barbital buffer was used at a pH of 8.6, ionic ...
Pheochromocytoma is a catecholamine-producing tumor that originates from chromaffin cells of the adrenergic system, most commonly in the adrenal medulla. There are two main steps in the diagnosis of ...
Nineteen (73 per cent) of 26 patients with pheochromocytoma had positive responses to pharmacologic testing with tyramine whereas only three (3 per cent) of 88 patients with other forms of ...
Effect of all-trans retinoic acid on proliferation of human rhabdomyosarcoma and remission in an in vivo mouse xenograft model. A prospective trial of prophylaxis and treatment (P+T) of acute tumor ...