Multiple organ failure caused by extraadrenal pheochromocytoma
Elkmann, T.; Christensen, A.M.; Otte, K.E.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 162(10): 1398-1399
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-5782 PMID: 10745680 Document Number: 514122
Extraadrenal phaeochromocytomas are very rare tumours, commonly associated with hypertensive paroxysms. We report a 20 year-old man with unsuspected extraadrenal phaeochromocytoma, who at admission presented with septicaemia and adult respiratory distress syndrome, suggesting pneumonia.