Atypical presentation of pheochromocytoma: Central nervous system pseudovasculitis

Pheochromocytoma has atypical presentation in 9%–10% of patients. Atypical presentations include myocardial infarction, renal failure, and rarely cerebrovascular events. Various etiologies for central nervous system (CNS) involvement in pheochromocytoma have been described in the literature. A rare...

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Autores principales: Rupala, Ketankumar, Mittal, Varun, Gupta, Rajiv, Yadav, Rajiv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5264202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28197038
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.195760
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author Rupala, Ketankumar
Mittal, Varun
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Yadav, Rajiv
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description Pheochromocytoma has atypical presentation in 9%–10% of patients. Atypical presentations include myocardial infarction, renal failure, and rarely cerebrovascular events. Various etiologies for central nervous system (CNS) involvement in pheochromocytoma have been described in the literature. A rare association of CNS vasculitis-like features has been described with pheochromocytoma. We report a rare case of pheochromocytoma detected on evaluation for CNS vasculitis-like symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-52642022017-02-14 Atypical presentation of pheochromocytoma: Central nervous system pseudovasculitis Rupala, Ketankumar Mittal, Varun Gupta, Rajiv Yadav, Rajiv Indian J Urol Case Report Pheochromocytoma has atypical presentation in 9%–10% of patients. Atypical presentations include myocardial infarction, renal failure, and rarely cerebrovascular events. Various etiologies for central nervous system (CNS) involvement in pheochromocytoma have been described in the literature. A rare association of CNS vasculitis-like features has been described with pheochromocytoma. We report a rare case of pheochromocytoma detected on evaluation for CNS vasculitis-like symptoms. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5264202/ /pubmed/28197038 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.195760 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Urology 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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title_full Atypical presentation of pheochromocytoma: Central nervous system pseudovasculitis
title_fullStr Atypical presentation of pheochromocytoma: Central nervous system pseudovasculitis
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title_sort atypical presentation of pheochromocytoma: central nervous system pseudovasculitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5264202/
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