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ea0037ep2 | Adrenal cortex | ECE2015

Management of urgent surgical intervention due to coexistence of phaeochromocytoma and hydrocephalus in a patient presenting with Von Hippel Lindau syndrome

Yalin Gulsah , Barbur Mehmet , Yegen Gulcin , Tanrikulu Seher , Uzum Ayse Kubat , Aral Ferihan , Tanakol Refik

A 41-year-old woman was admitted with headache and hypertension. She described worsening of headaches in the last 2 months. On physical examination blood pressure was 150/90 mmHg, and grade 1 hypertensive retinopathy was present. Her sister died at the age of 24 due to pancreas neuroendocrine tumour and her mother was followed up with multiple pancreatic cysts. Abdomen MRI revealed a 6 cm phaeochromocytoma lesion on the right surrenal and multiple cysts in the pancreas, kidney...