SPLEEN INFARCTION, LACTIC-ACIDOSIS, AND P ULMONARY-EDEMA AS SYMPTOMS OF PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA

Authors
BISCHOF T GUNTHARD H STRAUMANN E BERTEL O
Citation
T. Bischof et al., SPLEEN INFARCTION, LACTIC-ACIDOSIS, AND P ULMONARY-EDEMA AS SYMPTOMS OF PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA, Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, 127(7), 1997, pp. 261-265
Citations number
40
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift → ACNP
ISSN journal
00367672
Volume
127
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
261 - 265
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-7672(1997)127:7<261:SILAPU>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The case of a 45-year-old woman with pheochromocytoma, who presented w ith severe abdominal pain and headache, diabetes mellitus, lactic acid osis and pulmonary edema, is described and discussed. Spleen infarctio n, not so far described as an ischemic complication of pheochromocytom a, was seen in computer tomography. After medical pretreatment with la betalol, a pheochromocytoma (2x2 cm) of the left adrenal gland was rem oved. The postoperative course was uneventful.