The local spread of pheochromocytoma after adrenalectomy with a rupture of the tumor capsule at the time of the surgery

INTRODUCTION: We present a case of a 29-year-old patient treated due to fully symptomatic pheochromocytoma of the right adrenal gland. CASE PRESENTATION: Patient was operated on and an open right-sided adrenalectomy was performed. At the time of the surgery, a rupture of the tumor capsule occurred....

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Autores principales: Pogorzelski, Ryszard, Toutounchi, Sadegh, Fiszer, Patryk, Krajewska, Ewa, Łoń, Izabela, Zapała, Łukasz, Skórski, Maciej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: De Gruyter Open 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5152986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28352715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/med-2015-0049
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: We present a case of a 29-year-old patient treated due to fully symptomatic pheochromocytoma of the right adrenal gland. CASE PRESENTATION: Patient was operated on and an open right-sided adrenalectomy was performed. At the time of the surgery, a rupture of the tumor capsule occurred. Five years post-operatively, a recurrence of the symptoms of chromaffin-cell tumor was noted. After the exact localization of the multiple recurrences, the patient was reoperated on. CONCLUSION: The case of pheochromocytoma is presented due to the possibility of chromaffin-cell seeding into the peritoneum, with no signs of distal metastases so far.

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