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Paul J. Rosch, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;104(2):175-179.

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Gastrointestinal symptoms have always been recognized as a prominent manifestation of pheochromocytoma. The first successful removal of a pheochromocytoma ¹ was occasioned by complaints of abdominal pain and vomiting, and the first correct diagnosis and cure reported² occurred in a patient with recurrent attacks that could apparently be terminated only by nausea and vomiting. The initial description of the syndrome of paroxysmal episodes³ was of a 28-year-old woman with "troubles nerveux caracterises par des crises paroxystiques de constriction épigastrique, de nausées et de vomissements," and, in what was probably the first case reported,⁴ over 70 years ago, vomiting was a significant feature. In recent years, while attention has been focused on the cardiovascular and metabolic manifestations of pheochromocytoma, gastrointestinal symptoms have been noted to occur in over one-third of one series,⁵ with abdominal pain being frequently mentioned as a significant feature or presenting complaint.^5-9

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Author Affiliations
Physician-in-Charge Department of Nuclear Medicine St. John's Riverside Hospital Yonkers, N. Y.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 16, 1958.

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