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That adrenal tumors could be associated with violent attacks of high blood pressure, anxiety, sweating, tachycardia, prostration, and death was first appreciated at the postmortem table by Labbé Tinel and Doumer [1]. Their patient was a woman of 23 who died in acute pulmonary edema and at her autopsy they found a single adrenal tumor. Labbé, Tinel, and Doumer wondered if the adrenal tumor might be responsible for the violent, fatal attacks.
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Harrison, T.S. (1984). Endocrine neoplasms: pheochromocytoma. In: Santen, R.J., Manni, A. (eds) Diagnosis and Management of Endocrine-related Tumors. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2849-0_15
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