Endocrinologia Japonica
Online ISSN : 2185-6370
Print ISSN : 0013-7219
ISSN-L : 0013-7219
Pheochromocytoma Associated with Adrenocortical Adenoma: Case Report and Literature Review
JUNNOSUKE INOUESEIICHI OISHISYOJIRO NAOMITERUHISA UMEDATATSUO SATO
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1986 Volume 33 Issue 1 Pages 67-74

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The case of a 60-year-old woman with pheochromocytoma and concomitant adrenocortical adenoma in the same gland is presented. She complained of episodic headache, palpitation, nausea, vomiting and sweating. Physical examination revealed that the patient has generalized obesity, wet skin and paroxysmal hypertension, but no signs of Cushing's syndrome. Elevated levels of urinary noradrenaline, adrenaline and total metanephrine were sequentially observed. In addition, urinary 17-OHCS was also slightly elevated, but plasma cortisol was normal and suppressed after oral administration of 0.5mg of dexamethasone. Abdominal echography and CT scanning demonstrated a left adrenal tumor, which took up both 131I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine and 75Sescintadoren in the same region. A left adrenalectomy was performed and the tumor was found to consist of two parts, pheochromocytoma (2.5×2.5×2.5cm) and cortical adenoma (2.5×3×5cm). A total of 23 reported cases showing evidence of hyperfunction of the adrenal cortex and the medulla were noted. So far as we know, this patient was the second case of pheochromocytoma with adrenocortical adenoma in Japan.

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