A Giant Cystic Pheochromocytoma of the Adrenal Gland

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Zenggang Pan
Susan Repertinger
Caishu Deng
Poonam Sharma
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[1] Creighton University Medical Center,Department of Pathology
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Endocrine Pathology | 2008年 / 19卷
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pheochromocytoma; giant; adrenal gland;
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Adrenal pheochromocytomas are rare catecholamine-secreting tumors that originate from chromaffin cells in the adrenal medulla, and giant pheochromocytomas with cystic changes are particularly rare. We report a case of a 46-year-old man who presented with episodic hypertension and headache. Radiographic studies showed an 18-cm cystic mass in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen; further workups, which included light microscopy, immunohistochemical, and electron microscopic analysis, revealed a pheochromocytoma of the left adrenal gland. Cytogenetic analysis and genetic mutation analyses for von-Hippel–Lindau (VHL), rearranged during transfection (RET), and succinate dehydrogenase complex subunit B (SDHB) genes were also performed but failed to reveal any abnormalities within the tumor cells.
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