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Giant cystic pheochromocytoma: A silent entity

Pheochromocytoma is a catecholamine secreting tumor that originate from chromaffin cells. Usually, it is solid neoplasm of the adrenal medulla, however cystic pheochromocytoma is a rare neuro-endocrine tumour that is frequently asymptomatic and often diagnosed incidentally on imaging or intra-operat...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Amit, Bains, Lovenish, Agarwal, Manish Kumar, Gupta, Renu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27453669
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7796.184886
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description Pheochromocytoma is a catecholamine secreting tumor that originate from chromaffin cells. Usually, it is solid neoplasm of the adrenal medulla, however cystic pheochromocytoma is a rare neuro-endocrine tumour that is frequently asymptomatic and often diagnosed incidentally on imaging or intra-operatively. Only a few cases of cystic pheochromocytomas have been reported in the world literature. We present a case of giant cystic pheochromocytoma in a 65 years old lady who presented with a large retroperitoneal lump, which is probably the world's third largest pheochromocytoma as per the available indexed literature.
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spelling pubmed-49446402016-07-22 Giant cystic pheochromocytoma: A silent entity Gupta, Amit Bains, Lovenish Agarwal, Manish Kumar Gupta, Renu Urol Ann Case Report Pheochromocytoma is a catecholamine secreting tumor that originate from chromaffin cells. Usually, it is solid neoplasm of the adrenal medulla, however cystic pheochromocytoma is a rare neuro-endocrine tumour that is frequently asymptomatic and often diagnosed incidentally on imaging or intra-operatively. Only a few cases of cystic pheochromocytomas have been reported in the world literature. We present a case of giant cystic pheochromocytoma in a 65 years old lady who presented with a large retroperitoneal lump, which is probably the world's third largest pheochromocytoma as per the available indexed literature. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4944640/ /pubmed/27453669 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7796.184886 Text en Copyright: © Urology Annals http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Giant cystic pheochromocytoma: A silent entity
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title_full Giant cystic pheochromocytoma: A silent entity
title_fullStr Giant cystic pheochromocytoma: A silent entity
title_full_unstemmed Giant cystic pheochromocytoma: A silent entity
title_short Giant cystic pheochromocytoma: A silent entity
title_sort giant cystic pheochromocytoma: a silent entity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27453669
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7796.184886
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