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