Repetitive bleeding from a pheochromocytoma presenting as an abdominal emergency. Case report
Andersen, P.T.; Baadsgaard, S.E.; Larsen, B.P.
Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica 152: 69-70
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5482 PMID: 3953222 Document Number: 267826
Recurrent abdominal pain was the only subjective manifestation in a case of pheochromocytoma with retroperitoneal bleeding. At emergency laparotomy the tumor, showing signs of fresh and earlier bleeding, was extirpated. Sinus-type tachycardia was treated with beta-blockade peroperatively, while the diagnosis was still obscure, but hypertension did not follow. Meta-oxedrine and dopamine infusion was continued for 48 hours to sustain the blood pressure. Recovery was uneventful.