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Hypoglycaemic encephalopathy following surgery on phaeochromocytoma
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Hypoglycaemic encephalopathy following surgery on phaeochromocytoma

A B Channa, A B Mofti, G W Taylor, M O Mekki and M H Sheikh
Anaesthesia, Vol.42(12), pp.1298-1301
12/1987
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1987.tb05278.x
PMID: 3434761

Abstract

Adolescent Adrenal Gland Neoplasms - surgery Brain Diseases, Metabolic - etiology Humans Hypoglycemia - complications Male Pheochromocytoma - surgery Postoperative Complications - etiology
Severe hypoglycaemia as a complication of excision of a phaeochromocytoma has been reported seven times in the world literature. The eighth case, reported here, is unusual for the severity of the hypoglycaemic neurological damage which persisted for 10 weeks before ultimate recovery.

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