CASE 660: PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA, Dr PHAN THANH HAI, Dr PHAM THE ANH, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

A 43 year-old male patient with gastritis and hypertensive crisis, TA=140/100mmHg, P=88b/min.

Ultrasound detects a right adrenal tumor # 41x47milimiter, solid echo poor, less vascularized.

MSCT confirms the right adrenal tumor, with HU density =25 and in late phase of contrast, HU=43.

Surgery removes the tumor carefully in touch due to heart rate and arterial tension going down.

Report of histopathology is a pheocromocytoma of the right adrenal gland.