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A Clinical Roadmap to Investigate the Genetic Basis of Pediatric Pheochromocytoma: Which Genes Should Physicians Think About?

International Journal of Endocrinology, 2018
Pheochromocytoma is very rare at a pediatric age, and when it is present, the probability of a causative genetic mutation is high. Due to high costs of genetic surveys and an increasing number of genes associated with pheochromocytoma, a sequential ...
Bernardo Dias Pereira, Tiago Nunes da Silva, Ana Teresa Bernardo, Rui César, Henrique Vara Luiz, Karel Pacak, Luísa Mota-Vieira   +6 more
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The importance of pheochromocytoma case detection in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1: A case report and review of literature

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2017
Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a complex, multi-system genetic disorder that is associated with an increased prevalence of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma compared to the general population, 1.0%–5.7% versus 0.2%–0.6%, respectively.
Joshua M Tate, Janelle B Gyorffy, Jeffrey A Colburn   +2 more
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Hereditary pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma syndrome with a novel mutation in the succinate dehydrogenase subunit B gene in a Japanese family: two case reports

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021
Background Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma caused by succinate dehydrogenase gene mutations is called hereditary pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma syndrome.
Rei Hirose, Yuya Tsurutani, Chiho Sugisawa, Kosuke Inoue, Sachiko Suematsu, Maki Nagata, Naoki Hasegawa, Yukio Kakuta, Masato Yonamine, Kazuhiro Takekoshi, Noriko Kimura, Jun Saito, Tetsuo Nishikawa   +12 more
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Effective treatment with mitotane for a canine case of Ectopic Cushing's syndrome-related pheochromocytoma.

Open Veterinary Journal, 2022
In humans, ectopic Cushing's syndrome (ECS) is characterized by hypercortisolemia, which is caused by small lung carcinoma, bronchial carcinoids, and pheochromocytoma.
Konatsu Miura, Hiroshi Sunahara, Yusuke Sakai   +2 more
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Pediatric Bilateral Pheochromocytoma and Experience of Laparoscopic Cortical Sparing Adrenalectomy [PDF]

, 2018
Pheochromocytomas are neuroendocrine tumors. In this report, we present a 15-year-old girl who had cerebral palsy and pheochromocytoma. She also had a diagnosis of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in her history.
Celik, Ahmet, Abaci, Ayhan, Altıncık, Selda Ayça, Ece Böber, Abacı, Ayhan, Zafer Dökümcü, Şükran Darcan, Darcan, Sukran, Ahmet Çelik, Bober, Ece, Altincik, Ayca, DÖKÜMCÜ, ÜLKÜM ZAFER, Samim Özen, Ayhan Abacı, Ozen, Samim, Ayça Altıncık, Dokumcu, Zafer   +16 more
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Extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma with initial symptom of haemoptysis: a case report and review of literature

BMC Surgery, 2021
Background Pheochromocytoma is a catecholamine-secreting tumour that leads to various symptoms. Haemoptysis is rarely caused by a pheochromocytoma occurring outside the bronchus or thoracic cavity.
Yutaka Endo, Minoru Kitago, Masahiro Shinoda, Hiroshi Yagi, Yuta Abe, Shutaro Hori, Masanori Odaira, Takahiro Yokose, Kaori Kameyama, Yuko Kitagawa   +9 more
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Silent Hypertensive Crisis in an Adolescent: First Case Report of Pediatric Pheochromocytoma from Indonesia

Global Pediatric Health, 2021
Secondary hypertension in children, to the rare extent, can be caused by endocrine factors such as pheochromocytoma, an adrenal tumor that secretes catecholamine. Only a few cases have been reported in the past 3 decades.
Cahyani Gita Ambarsari, Eka Laksmi Hidayati, Bambang Tridjaja, Chaidir Arif Mochtar, Haryanti Fauzia Wulandari, Agnes Stephanie Harahap, Angela Grace   +6 more
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Pheochromocytoma Presenting as Acute Myocarditis with Cardiogenic Shock in Two Cases

, 2011
Pheochromocytoma is a rare, catecholamine-secreting tumor. The classic symptoms are headache, diaphoresis, and tachycardia with paroxysmal hypertension.
吳學明;陳建鈞;吳卓鍇;林亮宇;曾春典, WU, XUE-MING;CHEN, JIEN-JIUN;WU, CHO-KAI;LIN, LIAN-YU;TSENG, CHUEN-DEN   +1 more
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A rare long-term undetected pheochromocytoma leading to Takotsubo syndrome in an older male patient: a case report

BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2020
Background Takotsubo syndrome is an uncommon, acute, and reversible cardiomyopathy that occurs primarily in postmenopausal females. The clinical presentation of the syndrome resembles acute coronary syndrome, but coronary angiography reveals no ...
Min Chen, Tong Zhao, Guoping Chen, Shenjiang Hu   +3 more
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Clinicoradiological manifestations of paraganglioma syndromes associated with succinyl dehydrogenase enzyme mutation.

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Paragangliomas are rare tumours derived from the autonomic nervous system that have increasingly been recognised to have a genetic predisposition.
Hodgson, S, Brendan Barber, Khan, S, Bano, G, Mark Ingram, Ingram, M, Vlahos, I, Gul Bano, Barber, B, Shirley Hodgson, Ioannis Vlahos, Sameer Khan   +11 more
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