Unique Presentation and Perioperative Management of a Giant Pheochromocytoma

Pheochromocytomas are neuroendocrine tumors that arise from chromaffin cells in the adrenal medulla. Giant pheochromocytomas commonly measure greater than 7 to 10 cm, and their incidence and presentation is not well known. We present a case of a 62-year-old female with a giant 15.9 cm cystic pheochr...

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Autores principales: Villarraga, Nicolas, Palani, Gurunanthan, Risk, Michael, Sibley, Shalamar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10580415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37908578
http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jcemcr/luad065
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Palani, Gurunanthan
Risk, Michael
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description Pheochromocytomas are neuroendocrine tumors that arise from chromaffin cells in the adrenal medulla. Giant pheochromocytomas commonly measure greater than 7 to 10 cm, and their incidence and presentation is not well known. We present a case of a 62-year-old female with a giant 15.9 cm cystic pheochromocytoma. The patient was medically managed with oral phenoxybenzamine solution dose 4 times greater than average and was treated with a radical left nephrectomy and adrenalectomy. This case offers insight into the clinical presentation of giant pheochromocytomas and the unique challenges they present both medically and surgically.
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spelling pubmed-105804152023-10-31 Unique Presentation and Perioperative Management of a Giant Pheochromocytoma Villarraga, Nicolas Palani, Gurunanthan Risk, Michael Sibley, Shalamar JCEM Case Rep Case Report Pheochromocytomas are neuroendocrine tumors that arise from chromaffin cells in the adrenal medulla. Giant pheochromocytomas commonly measure greater than 7 to 10 cm, and their incidence and presentation is not well known. We present a case of a 62-year-old female with a giant 15.9 cm cystic pheochromocytoma. The patient was medically managed with oral phenoxybenzamine solution dose 4 times greater than average and was treated with a radical left nephrectomy and adrenalectomy. This case offers insight into the clinical presentation of giant pheochromocytomas and the unique challenges they present both medically and surgically. Oxford University Press 2023-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10580415/ /pubmed/37908578 http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jcemcr/luad065 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Endocrine Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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