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A pheochromocytoma with normal clonidine-suppression test: how difficult the biochemical diagnosis?

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  1. Department of Angiology and Blood Coagulation ‘Marino Golinelli’, University Hospital S. Orsola-Malpighi, Via Albertoni, 15, 40138, Bologna, Italy

    Michelangelo Sartori

  2. Clinica Medica 4, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

    Michelangelo Sartori, Lorenzo A. Calo & Andrea Semplicini

  3. Medicina Clinica, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Neurologia Clinica, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Alessandro Cosenzi, Elena Bernobich & Giuseppe Bellini

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Sartori, M., Cosenzi, A., Bernobich, E. et al. A pheochromocytoma with normal clonidine-suppression test: how difficult the biochemical diagnosis?. Intern Emerg Med 3, 61–64 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-008-0093-7

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