[Treatment of pheochromocytoma in children. Experience with 3 clinical cases]

The authors report their own experience in three cases of paediatric phaeochromocytoma. Before surgery the patients received alpha-adrenergic blocking drugs; two of them also received calcium channels blocking drugs and in one of them was employed a beta-adrenergic blocking drug too. Before surgery the patients received blood and plasma expandera infusions for two weeks. Hypertension during surgery was treated with phentolamine infusion. The employment of an invasive haemodynamic monitoring was very important. The authors believe that such management, already employed in adult patients, is the best choice in paediatric patients too.