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ea0065p17 | Adrenal and Cardiovascular | SFEBES2019

Very high rate of false positive biochemical results when screening for phaeochromocytoma in a large, undifferentiated population with variable indications for testing

Kline Gregory , Boyd Jessica , Leung Alexander , Tang Andrew , Sadrzadeh Hossein

Pheochromocytoma-Paraganglioma (PPGL) is a rare but important tumour with non-specific presentations that overlap with extremely common entities such as anxiety, hypertension, acute illness and episodic ‘spells.’ Assessment of urine normetanephrine or metanephrine(UNM-M) in real life practice, where PPGL is very rare and PPGL mimics are extremely common, may show overlap in results with loss of specificity depending on the reference range chosen. We performed a retro...