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[Incidental finding of phaeochromocytoma during surgery: the anaesthesiologist's nightmare]
D Rousson1, T Rimmelé, C E Ber
1Service d'anesthésie, centre hospitalier St-Joseph-St-Luc, 20, quai Claude-Bernard, 69007 Lyon, France. delphinerousson@hotmail.com
Annales Francaises D'Anesthesie Et De Reanimation
|January 31, 2012
Abstract:
We report the case of a patient who presented hypertension paroxysmal with acute pulmonary oedema followed by cardiocirculatory arrest during gynaecological surgery for resection of latero-aortic lymph nodes suspected to be cervical cancer metastases. This intervention, originally oncologic, has discovered ectopic phaeochromocytoma a posteriori. The management of perioperative serious adverse events revealing the undiagnosed phaeochromocytoma is discussed.