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  • Title: [Acute abdomen from ruptured adrenal pheochromocytoma: case report].
    Author: Bronzino P, Abbo L, Barisone P, Dezzani C, Genovese AM, Iannucci P, Ippoliti M, Sacchi M, Aimo I.
    Journal: G Chir; 2005; 26(1-2):25-8. PubMed ID: 15847090.
    Abstract:
    The pheochromocytoma is a very rare neoplasm, which originates in 98% of cases in the adrenal medulla; it is often bilateral in familial syndromes. It is more frequent in syndromes like MEN2, von Hippel-Lindau disease, and neuofribromatosis type 1. In this article the Authors report a case of a young woman with a large adrenal pheochromocytoma, that presented by an acute abdomen; the treatment was explorative laparotomy with unilateral adrenalectomy. Therapy of this tumour is founded on surgery, plus chemiotherapy radiotherapy or treatment with 131I-MIBG (iodine-131-metaiodobenzylguanidine in malignant cases (10%). According with the absence of a correlation between pathological findings and clinical behaviour, a long-term follow up is indispensable.
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