Phaeochromocytoma-associated critical peripheral ischaemia.
Limb Ischaemia is an exceptional complication of catecholamine toxicity caused by a phaeochromocytoma. We present a middle-aged female patient with severe subacute peripheral ishaemia, gangrene and eventual amputation of all four distal limbs due to a large non-metastatic left adrenal gland phaeochromocytoma and summarise the available literature concerning previously reported cases.
Lutchman
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Department of Internal Medicine, Nambour General Hospital, Nambour, Queensland, Austrlia.
Buchholz
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Keightley
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D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D006225:Hand / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D009666:Nose / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*