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Phaeochromocytoma presenting in pregnancy

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TWO cases of phaeochromocytoma presenting as hypertension in pregnancy are described. The importance of considering all differential diagnoses especially when hypertension presents early in pregnancy is stressed.

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  1. The Departments of Medicine and Nephrology, Urology and Radiology, The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, Dublin 1

    D. Mulcahy, W. F. O’Dwyer, M. Carmody, A. Walsh, J. O’Callaghan & P. J. Garrett

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Mulcahy, D., O’Dwyer, W.F., Carmody, M. et al. Phaeochromocytoma presenting in pregnancy. I.J.M.S. 153, 389–391 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02939802

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