PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA MANIFESTING WITH SHOCK PRESENTS A CLINICAL PARADOX -A CASE-REPORT

Authors
FORD J ROSENBERG F CHAN N
Citation
J. Ford et al., PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA MANIFESTING WITH SHOCK PRESENTS A CLINICAL PARADOX -A CASE-REPORT, CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association journal, 157(7), 1997, pp. 923-925
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
08203946
Volume
157
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
923 - 925
Database
ISI
SICI code
0820-3946(1997)157:7<923:PMWSPA>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
A 46-YEAR-OLD MAN PRESENTED WITH SHOCK and adult respiratory distress syndrome. Investigations revealed an adrenal mass that was diagnosed, by fine-needle aspiration biopsy, as pheochromocytoma. Because biopsy is contraindicated in patients with pheochromocytoma, this confusing p resentation underscores the value of excluding this diagnosis by bioch emical means before performing fine-needle aspiration of adrenal tumou rs.