%0 Journal Article
%T Feocromocitoma. Presentaci¨®n de un caso
%A Arteaga Hern¨¢ndez
%A Jos¨¦ L
%A Plaza Gonz¨¢lez
%A Tania
%A Suero Almonte
%A Samael
%A Calzadilla Garc¨ªa
%A Liv¨¢n
%A Almora Carbonel
%A Ceramides Lidia
%J Revista de Ciencias M£¿£¿dicas de Pinar del R£¿-o
%D 2011
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X pheochromocytoma is a tumor of the adrenal medulla in chromaffin cells derived from secretory neural crest of catecholamines (adrenaline, noradrenaline and less frequent dopamine). a case of a young woman attended to the emergency room at ¡°abel santamaria cuadrado¡± hospital is analyzed, the patient complained of a pain in the right hemi-abdomen, of some days of evolution and hypertension. an exhaustive physical examination, abdominal sonography and axial computerize tomography were performed. a right adrenal mass of oval morphology and well-delimited borders, similar to the image of a pheochromocytoma; pathologic anatomy confirmed the diagnosis with malignant characteristics. the patient showed a favourable post-operative progress but presented a hypertensive crisis which provoked the death.
%K pheochromocytoma [diagnosis]
%K radiology.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1561-31942011000300019&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en