ECE2018 Poster Presentations: Adrenal and Neuroendocrine Tumours Clinical case reports - Pituitary/Adrenal (21 abstracts)
Bilateral adrenal mass revealing a pheochromocytoma and an adrenocortical adenoma in a young women: a case report
Sara Atraki , Siham ElAziz & Asmaa Chadli
Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases Department Ibn Rochd University Hospital of Casablanca, Morocco, Neurosciences and Mental Health Laboratory Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco.
A 44-year-old women without personal or familial pathological history, presented 8 months before her admission a paroxystic symptomatology made of palpitations, headache and profus sweat associated with major abdominal pain, evolving in a context of alteration of the general state. Clinical examination objectified high blood pressure and tachycardia. Laboratory testing confirmed the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma. A computed tomography of the abdomen revealed a bilateral adrenal mass. The patient was treated with blood pressure treatment, specifically nicardipine and beta blockers, and surgical excision of the masses. Anatomopathological study objectived a right pheochromocytoma and left adrenocorticaladenoma. This case displays an atypical clinical presentation of bilateral adrenal masses.
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