History
In 1886, Felix Fränkel made the first description of a patient with pheochromocytoma. The term "pheochromocytoma" was first coined by Ludwig Pick, a pathologist, in 1912. In 1926, César Roux (in Switzerland) and Charles Horace Mayo (in the U.S.A.) were the first surgeons to successfully remove pheochromocytomas.
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