Endocrine Abstracts

IntroductionEndocrinopathies represent about 1–3% of secondary hypertension.The non-head-neck paragangliomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors that arise from the ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. About 75% are intra-adbdominal, thus they are often mistaken for adrenal pheocromocitoma.They usually secret normetanephrine and chromogranin A, which are responsible of 0.2–0.6% of secondary hypertension.Objective<p c...