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Pheochromocytoma

Pheochromocytoma (PHEO or PCC) is a rare tumor of the adrenal medulla composed of chromaffin cells, also known as pheochromocytes. When a tumor composed of the same cells as a pheochromocytoma develops outside the adrenal gland, it is referred to as a paraganglioma. [Source: Wikipedia ]

May Cause
Abnormal abdominal vessels
Adrenal calcification
Adrenal enlargement
Adrenal tumor
Bilateral adrenal enlargement
Bladder filling defect
Bladder tumor
Bone infarct
Brachydactyly
Calcification in bladder wall or lumen
Calcified liver metastasis
Cardiac or pericardial neoplasm or cyst
Colonic distention without obstruction
Congenital abdominal calcifications
Enhancing mediastinal mass
Extrinsic indentation on duodenum
Hypertension
Hypervascular liver metastasis
Increased retrogastric or retroduodenal space
Intestinal pseudo-obstruction
Left ventricular enlargement
Lesion of perinephric space
Lytic skeletal lesion
Mass displacing kidney
Nonvisceral abdominal calcification
Osteolytic metastasis
Paraspinal soft-tissue mass
Posterior mediastinal lesion
Pulmonary edema
Solid pelvic mass
T1-hyperintense adrenal mass
T2-hyperintense adrenal mass
T2-intermediate adrenal mass
Unilateral adrenal enlargement
May Be Caused by
Carney triad
Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2A
Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2B
Neurofibromatosis
Von Hippel-Lindau disease

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