Experience with pheochromocytoma at Jordan University Hospital

ABSTRACT

This report presents nine patients with pheochromocytoma treated at Jordan University Hospital [JUH] between 1977 and 1988. The presentation was variable; seven patients were hypertensive and two were normotensive and presented with pain and a mass in the abdomen. One patient presented while undergoing surgery and was successfully diagnosed and resuscitated. One patient had adrenal medullary hyperplasia and eight patients had nine tumours. The accepted criteria of malignancy were not documented but two tumours might have been malignant due to the presence of adhesions, one of them had local recurrence two years after primary surgery, the other died post operatively. No patient had a positive family history or evidence of MEN type 2 syndrome but three had associated neoplasms including neurofibromatosis, uterine fibroids and cholangiocarcinoma