A rare initial clinical presentation of pheochromocytoma

Neurofibroma: Report of a rare clinical presentation

Neurofibroma is a tumor composed of a complex proliferation of neuromesenchymal tissue (Schwann cells, perineural cells, fibroblast, and mast cells). We report a 45-year-old female who had a slow growing, large, soft, pedunculated mass on her left lateral neck. A skin biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of neurofibroma.

[Ventricular tachycardia as initial presentation of pheochromocytoma].

Pheochromocytoma presents with headache, sweating, and palpitations associated with hypertension, heart failure, and arrhythmias due to catecholamine secretion.1 The presence of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) has been reported rarely.2,3 We describe a case of pheochromocytoma that manifested as sustained and incessant monomorphic VT. A 47-year-old woman with diabetes and hypertension un...

Osteoblastoma of Mandible:A Rare Clinical Presentation

A rare presentation of pheochromocytoma in pregnancy: a case report

BACKGROUND Early diagnosis of pheochromocytoma and its proper management can lessen its mortality and morbidity. This case report describes a 24-year-old pregnant woman with an unusual presentation of pheochromocytoma. CASE PRESENTATION An Iranian 24-year-old primigravid woman from Kordistan province was referred to our center with left flank pain at 37 weeks of gestation. She had a history o...

Initial clinical presentation and spectrum of pheochromocytoma: a study of 94 cases from a single center

BACKGROUND With the increasing access to imaging more pheochromocytomas are diagnosed in the workup of adrenal incidentalomas. This may have changed the occurrence of the classic presentation with hypertension and the classic triad (headaches, sweating and palpitation). METHODS We reviewed 94 consecutive cases of pheochromocytomas. Two cases of ectopic ACTH-syndrome were subsequently excluded...