Petramala, Luigi and Olmati, Federica and Concistrè, Antonio and Saraceno, Vincenza and Iannucci, Gino and Ciardi, Antonio and De Toma, Giorgio and Letizia, Claudio (2017) Silent Adrenal Pheochromocytoma Coexistent with Corticomedullary Hyperplasia: A Case Incidentally Discovered. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 4 (10). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Introduction: Pheochromocytoma (PHEO) is a rare catecholamine-producing tumour arising from chromaffin cells in the sympatho-adrenal system, and can present as asymptomatic adrenal incidentaloma (AI). Patient: We describe the case of a 61-year-old woman with a right adrenal mass incidentally discovered, who was biochemically characterized with subclinical hypercortisolism (SH). The patient was scheduled for adrenalectomy because of increasing seizure of the right adrenal gland with a haemorrhagic and focal pseudocystic appearance macroscopically, incidental histological and immunohistochemical PHEO, and micronodular cortico-adrenal hyperplasia. Discussion: This report describes a rare case of incidental non-functioning PHEO coexisting with corticomedullary hyperplasia and SH.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Adrenal Incidentaloma, Subclinical Hypercortisolism, Pheochromocytoma, adrenal hyperplasia |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2018 09:40 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jan 2018 09:40 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/17013 |
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