Pheochromocytoma

Abstract

PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA has been considered among the rarer tumors but with increased interest in all types of hypertension and with improvement in diagnostic methods these tumors are being recognized more often. The numerous case reports of pheochromocytoma emphasize its frequent association with either paroxysmal or sustained hypertension.Historical BackgroundFraenkel,¹ in 1886, reported the case of an eighteen-year-old girl in whom autopsy showed bilateral adrenal tumors that probably were pheochromocytomas. Thirty-six years later Labbé, Tinel and Doumer² presented the first adequate clinical description of the hypertensive crises associated with this lesion. Mayo,³ (1927) is credited with the first successful operative removal . . .