Abstract

GONZALEZ, HERMES  and  HOSPITAL METROPOLITANO DEL NORTE. NAGUANAGUA et al. Tumor de la glándula suprarrenal. Rev. venez. oncol. [online]. 2007, vol.19, n.1, pp.76-79. ISSN 0798-0582.

Pheochromocytoma is a lost common catecholamine secreting tumor derived most of the time from the chromaffin cells from the medullar adrenal gland. These malignant potential is primordial for the presence of metastases in organs with not contain cromatofin tissues. In these work we present and describe a case of a male patient 54 years old, he went to Unit of Oncology Surgery of the Hospital Metropolitano del Norte for having strong low back pain, and increase of big mass size in lumbar right region with various imagenologic studies reports that suggesting a occupant space lesion: a big mass in right adrenal gland, compatible with right adrenocortical carcinoma, the patient needing surgery procedure to remove all the tumor. However, after surgery immunohistochemistry and histopathology reports a Pheocromocytoma. The definite treatment is surgical with good results.

Keywords : Adrenocortical tumor; pheochromocytoma.