Feocromocitoma. Presentación de un caso

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.