There are few reported cases of endobronchial metastasis of pheochromocytoma literature. We present here a 56-year old woman who underwent left lower lobectomy of lung, following pneumonia with unresolved chest radiographs. Computed tomography showed a lobulated soft tissue mass, measuring, 38×27 mm, at the perivascular space of anterior mediastinum. The resected specimen, showed lobulated tumo...

Pheochromocytoma is a great mimicker and has varied presentation. It can present as medical emergency with hypertensive emergencies, acute cardiac event, neurological manifestations, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and metabolic emergencies. Here we report a young individual who after a bout of exercise developed breathlessness and rapidly developed...

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE Adrenergic crisis induced by a pheochromocytoma leads to life-threatening catecholamine-induced hemodynamic disturbances. Successful treatment of a pheochromocytoma crisis demands prompt diagnosis, vigorous pharmacological therapy and emergent tumor removal, if the patient continues to deteriorate.

Pheochromocytomas are rare neoplasias of neural crest origin arising from chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla and sympathetic ganglia (extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma). Pheochromocytoma that develop in rats homozygous for a loss-of-function mutation in p27Kip1 (MENX syndrome) show a clear progression from hyperplasia to tumor, offering the possibility to gain insight into tumor pathobiology....

Malignant pheochromocytomas, which account for 10% of all cases of pheochromocytoma, are an extremely troublesome disease for urologists and endocrinologists. It is difficult to examine malignant pheochromocytomas using conventional histopathological methods, and the condition carries a poor prognosis and no useful treatment has yet been established. We established a mouse model for metastatic ...

HYPOTHESIS Pheochromocytoma can be safely treated laparoscopically; "subclinical" pheochromocytoma is increasingly common. DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTING University hospital. PATIENTS Patients undergoing adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma at our institution in 1994 to 2009. INTERVENTIONS Laparoscopic, hand-assisted, and open adrenalectomy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Preoperative and ...

The aim of our study was to evaluate the influence of surgical removal of pheochromocytoma on the endocrine function of adipose tissue and subclinical inflammation as measured by circulating C-reactive protein (CRP) levels. Eighteen patients with newly diagnosed pheochromocytoma were included into study. Anthropometric measures, biochemical parameters, serum CRP, leptin, adiponectin and resisti...

Pheochromocytoma is a rare catecholamine-producing tumor arising from chromaffin tissue in the adrenal medulla, occurring in less than 0.2 percent of patients with hypertension. The mean age at diagnosis is about 40 years. Pheochromocytomas are commonly inherited as features of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 or several other pheochromocytoma-associated syndromes and have variable clinical ...

Cardiac pheochromocytoma is relatively rare. Few reports describe the intraoperative and postoperative progression of patients experiencing a life-threatening pheochromocytoma crisis treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).A 35-year-old man was referred to our facility for paroxysmal hypertension with a 10-year history of sweating, headaches, cardiac palpitations, and postexerci...

PATIENT Female, 55 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Metastatic malignant pheochromocytoma Symptoms: Chest pain • tachycardia • tachypnea MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Oncology. OBJECTIVE Rare disease. BACKGROUND Malignant pheochromocytoma is defined as the occurrence of the tumor in an area that is normally devoid of chromaffin tissue, direct tumor invasion, and/or metastasis. Metastatic ...