Abstract

AROCHA MOLINA, Yuniel et al. Bilateral pheochromocytoma: presentation of a case. Rev. Med. Electrón. [online]. 2011, vol.33, n.2, pp.239-243. ISSN 1684-1824.

The pheochromocytoma as a cause of secondary arterial hypertension has low incidence. The most frequent age of presentation is between 30 and 50 years old. It can have dominant autosomyc hereditary character. Its clinical manifestation does not depend on the topography or the size of the tumor. It can debut with serious complications. We present the case of a patient aged 32, whose hypertensive father died at the age of 38, without specified cause. The patient entered the hospital for the debut of a paroxysmal hypertension. By means of ultrasound and on-line axial tomography there were found bilateral suprarenal tumors compatible with pheochromocytoma and the patient dies four days after entering the hospital by acute lung edema, during a hypertensive emergency. It was proven, for pathologic anatomy, the diagnosis so much macroscopic as microscopic, of pheochromocytoma.

Keywords : pheochromocytoma; hypertension; chromaffin cells; case reports; humans; male; adult.

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