Spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's disease

Spontaneous rupture of an adrenal pheochromocytoma is extremely rare and can be lethal because of dramatic changes in the circulation. We describe a 35-year-old Iranian female with previously diagnosed von Recklinghausen's disease who suffered spontaneous rupture of an adrenal pheochromocytoma,...

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Autores principales: Azhough, Ramin, Barband, Ali Reza, Motayagheni, Negar, Niafar, Mitra, Pourfathi, Hojjat
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.56056
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author Azhough, Ramin
Barband, Ali Reza
Motayagheni, Negar
Niafar, Mitra
Pourfathi, Hojjat
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description Spontaneous rupture of an adrenal pheochromocytoma is extremely rare and can be lethal because of dramatic changes in the circulation. We describe a 35-year-old Iranian female with previously diagnosed von Recklinghausen's disease who suffered spontaneous rupture of an adrenal pheochromocytoma, misdiagnosed as renal colic followed by an extensive retroperitoneal hematoma, irreversible hemodynamic shock, and death.
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spelling pubmed-27722452009-11-18 Spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's disease Azhough, Ramin Barband, Ali Reza Motayagheni, Negar Niafar, Mitra Pourfathi, Hojjat Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Spontaneous rupture of an adrenal pheochromocytoma is extremely rare and can be lethal because of dramatic changes in the circulation. We describe a 35-year-old Iranian female with previously diagnosed von Recklinghausen's disease who suffered spontaneous rupture of an adrenal pheochromocytoma, misdiagnosed as renal colic followed by an extensive retroperitoneal hematoma, irreversible hemodynamic shock, and death. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2772245/ /pubmed/19881191 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.56056 Text en © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Azhough, Ramin
Barband, Ali Reza
Motayagheni, Negar
Niafar, Mitra
Pourfathi, Hojjat
Spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's disease
title Spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's disease
title_full Spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's disease
title_fullStr Spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's disease
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's disease
title_short Spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's disease
title_sort spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma in a patient with von recklinghausen's disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.56056
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