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Paroxysmal hypertension with tumor of retroperitoneal nerve. Report of a case.

Publication Details

J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 89, 1047-1050. 1927 CE.

First resection of a pheochromocytoma in America, and the second in the world, by the co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.  In 1926 César Roux of Lausanne did the first resection of this rare type of tumor.

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Entry Number#12266
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/14483
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLparoxysmal-hypertension-with-tumor-of-retroperitoneal-nerve

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Lausanne