Pheochromocytoma in an accessory adrenal gland: a case report

Very few cases of pheochromocytoma in functional accessory adrenal glands have been documented in literature. We present a twenty-four year old Nigerian female who presented with pheochromocytoma. Investigations revealed a suprarenal mass, which was diagnosed as an accessory gland adrenal tumour at...

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Autores principales: Afuwape, Oludolapo, Ladipo, Josephus K, Ogun, Olabiyi, Adeleye, Jokotade, Irabor, David
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918568
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6271
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author Afuwape, Oludolapo
Ladipo, Josephus K
Ogun, Olabiyi
Adeleye, Jokotade
Irabor, David
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description Very few cases of pheochromocytoma in functional accessory adrenal glands have been documented in literature. We present a twenty-four year old Nigerian female who presented with pheochromocytoma. Investigations revealed a suprarenal mass, which was diagnosed as an accessory gland adrenal tumour at surgery. This shows that accessory adrenal glands can be a basis for development of pheochromocytoma.
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spelling pubmed-27692782009-11-16 Pheochromocytoma in an accessory adrenal gland: a case report Afuwape, Oludolapo Ladipo, Josephus K Ogun, Olabiyi Adeleye, Jokotade Irabor, David Cases J Case report Very few cases of pheochromocytoma in functional accessory adrenal glands have been documented in literature. We present a twenty-four year old Nigerian female who presented with pheochromocytoma. Investigations revealed a suprarenal mass, which was diagnosed as an accessory gland adrenal tumour at surgery. This shows that accessory adrenal glands can be a basis for development of pheochromocytoma. Cases Network Ltd 2009-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2769278/ /pubmed/19918568 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6271 Text en © 2009 Afuwape et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Afuwape, Oludolapo
Ladipo, Josephus K
Ogun, Olabiyi
Adeleye, Jokotade
Irabor, David
Pheochromocytoma in an accessory adrenal gland: a case report
title Pheochromocytoma in an accessory adrenal gland: a case report
title_full Pheochromocytoma in an accessory adrenal gland: a case report
title_fullStr Pheochromocytoma in an accessory adrenal gland: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Pheochromocytoma in an accessory adrenal gland: a case report
title_short Pheochromocytoma in an accessory adrenal gland: a case report
title_sort pheochromocytoma in an accessory adrenal gland: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918568
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6271
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