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01-06-2015 | Endocrine Imaging
Natural progression of a sporadic pheochromocytoma over 15 years
Published in: Endocrine | Issue 2/2015
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A 90-year-old woman with moderate hypertension and a left pheochromocytoma was referred to our hospital for reassessment of the pheochromocytoma. She had a history of lung cancer and no family history of endocrine tumors. She had been diagnosed with a pheochromocytoma 15 years earlier and had declined surgical treatment decidedly since then. The adrenal tumor had enlarged, as shown on serial computed tomography (CT) images, and presently measured 64 mm in diameter (Fig. 1). She was asymptomatic until recently, and received oral doxazosin mesilate and other antihypertensive drugs.
Fig. 1
Serial computed tomography performed over a 15-year period shows gradual growth of a left adrenal gland tumor (arrowhead), identified as a pheochromocytoma, with cystic degeneration
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