Abstract

ARTEAGA HERNANDEZ, José L et al. Pheochromocytoma. A case report. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.3, pp.197-204. ISSN 1561-3194.

Pheochromocytoma is a tumor of the adrenal medulla in chromaffin cells derived from secretory neural crest of catecholamines (adrenaline, noradrenaline and less frequent dopamine). A case of a young woman attended to the Emergency Room at “Abel Santamaria Cuadrado” hospital is analyzed, the patient complained of a pain in the right hemi-abdomen, of some days of evolution and hypertension. An exhaustive physical examination, abdominal sonography and Axial Computerize Tomography were performed. A right adrenal mass of oval morphology and well-delimited borders, similar to the image of a Pheochromocytoma; pathologic anatomy confirmed the diagnosis with malignant characteristics. The patient showed a favourable post-operative progress but presented a hypertensive crisis which provoked the death.

Keywords : PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA [diagnosis]; RADIOLOGY.

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