Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aims: Pheochromocytomas arise from chromaffin cells of adrenal medulla and sympathetic ganglia. It occurs in about 0.05 to 0.1% of patients with sustained hypertension. It is considered that about half the patients with pheochromocytoma have only paroxysmal hypertension. Pheochromocytoma is usually suggested by the history in a symptomatic patient, discovery of an incidental adrenal mass, or the family history in a patient with familial disease. We retrospective...