British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2002, Vol. 89, No. 1 188
© 2002 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia
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Retroperitoneoscopic excision of phaeochromocytoma
Editor—I would like to bring to your notice that, contrary to the claim made by Dr Atallah and colleagues in the May 2001 issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia,1 the first report of haemodynamic changes during retroperitoneoscopic resection of phaeochromocytoma (in a larger series), was published by our group in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in February 2000.2 We would appreciate this error being brought to the attention of your readers.R. Subramaniam
New Delhi, India
Editor—Thank you for giving us the opportunity to respond to Dr Subramaniam’s letter. By the time we wrote our case report, we had made several, regular bibliographical searches for the essential keywords: ‘phaeochromocytoma’ and ‘retroperitoneoscopy’. At no time did we find the publication of Dr Subramaniam and colleagues. We apologize for this error, which was not in any way deliberate.
F. Atallah
Toulouse, France
References
1 Atallah F, Bastide-Heulin T, Soulie M et al. Haemodynamic changes during retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy for phaeo chromocytoma. Br J Anaesth 2001; 86: 731–3
2 Subramaniam R, Pandit B, Sadhasivam S, Sridevi KB, Kaul HL. Retroperitoneoscopic excision of phaeochromocytoma—haemodynamic events, complications and outcome. Anaesth Intensive Care 2000; 28: 49–53[Medline]
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