A 52-year-old woman with a 7-year history of hyperten-sion presented to the emergency department of a regional 2nd-grade community hospital complaining of dyspnea, chest pain, headache, and palpitations for the past 6 h. She also reported blood pressure (BP) levels measured at home of 220/110 mm Hg for 2 h before admission, which were not reduced after receiving her usual antihypertensive medic...

A case of hypertension in a young woman caused by an extra-adrenal phaeochromocytoma (EAP) situated in the hilum of the left kidney is reported. Surgical removal of the EAP resulted in control of the patient's hypertension without further drug treatment. The clinical features, diagnostic work-up and management of EAP are briefly discussed.

Abstract Objectives Neuroblastoma (NB) is one of the most common tumor during perinatal period. The clinical features NB occurring in fetuses and neonates differ from that older age groups. Frequently, Congenital neuroblastomas are incidentally detected prenatally. Clinical presentations NBs highy variable. Case presentation A 24-day old preterm 32 weeks’ gestation male neonate developed choles...

myelolipoma, a rare benign non-functioning neoplasm, is composed of mature adipose tissue and bone marrow elements. its most common location is adrenal gland; however, extra-adrenal cases have been also reported. it is found in only 0.2% of all autopsies; 96% of the reported cases were detected on postmortem examination. the surgical symptomatic cases having been reported so far are few. in thi...