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KMID : 0378019820250020039
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New Medical Journal
1982 Volume.25 No. 2 p.39 ~ p.44
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A Case of Pheochromocytoma
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Abstract
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Pheochromocytoma is a tumor arising from chromaffin cells of the sympathoadrenal system which produce large amount of catecholamine.
This tumor is rare in children which frequently seen in female and occasionally inherited by autosomal dominant trait.
The major symptoms are headache, paroxysmal and persistant hypertension, which may ca￢use hypertensive retinopathy, encephalopathy and heart failure.
We experienced a case of pheochromocytoma in 12 years old female child who showed regitine test positive, increased excretion of urinary V.M.A and catecholamine, and a round mass in the right adrenal gland on trunk C-T scan.
Successful right adrenalectomy was performed, and confirmed by histopathological findings. Brief review of literature were also made.
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