Adrenalectomy for huge solid pheochromocytoma: a challenging surgery or piece of cake?

ABSTRACT Pheochromocytoma (PCC) is an uncommon adrenal tumor that is occasionally diagnosed during the work up for patients with uncontrolled hypertension. Treatment of PCC is mainly surgical. This case represents the largest PCC reported to date, which was safely removed.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of Surgical Case Reports

• Publication date

  2019-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/jscr/rjz255PMID 31462986PMCID 6705450
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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