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[Extra adrenal pheochromocytoma. Report of two cases]
Jorge García Rodríguez1, Jesús María Fernández Gómez, Antonio Jalón Monzón
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital Central de Asturias, Oviedo, España.
Objectives:
To review two cases of extra adrenal pheochromocytoma.
Methods:
We present two cases: a 75-year-old patient with history of high blood pressure and intravesical tumor compatible with urinary bladder paraganglioma, and a 59-year-old patient with a retroperitoneal tumor arising from para-aortic ganglia.
Results:
Diagnosis was made by CT scan and transurethral resection in the first case, all posterior extension studies were negative; in the second case retroperitoneal exeresis surgery was performed after CT scan.
Conclusions:
Extra adrenal pheochromocytomas are catecholamine producing tumours, which determines their clinical features; treatment should be surgical. A bibliographic review about this disease is performed.