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Endocrine Abstracts (2018) 56 P105 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.56.P105

ECE2018 Poster Presentations: Adrenal and Neuroendocrine Tumours Clinical case reports - Pituitary/Adrenal (21 abstracts)

Bilateral adrenal mass revealing a pheochromocytoma and an adrenocortical adenoma in a young women: a case report

Sara Atraki , Siham ElAziz & Asmaa Chadli


Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases Department Ibn Rochd University Hospital of Casablanca, Morocco, Neurosciences and Mental Health Laboratory Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco.


A 44-year-old women without personal or familial pathological history, presented 8 months before her admission a paroxystic symptomatology made of palpitations, headache and profus sweat associated with major abdominal pain, evolving in a context of alteration of the general state. Clinical examination objectified high blood pressure and tachycardia. Laboratory testing confirmed the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma. A computed tomography of the abdomen revealed a bilateral adrenal mass. The patient was treated with blood pressure treatment, specifically nicardipine and beta blockers, and surgical excision of the masses. Anatomopathological study objectived a right pheochromocytoma and left adrenocorticaladenoma. This case displays an atypical clinical presentation of bilateral adrenal masses.

Volume 56

20th European Congress of Endocrinology

Barcelona, Spain
19 May 2018 - 22 May 2018

European Society of Endocrinology 

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