Affiliation:
1. St. Petersburg State Budgetary Healthcare Institution City Clinical Oncological Dispensarу
Abstract
The aim of the article is to provide the reader with some information about etiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic methods, clinical manifestations and treatment of pheochromocytoma. The clinical case describes difficulties in differential diagnosis of retroperitoneal neoplasms, possible errors in obtaining morphological verification of pheochromocytoma, and successful surgical treatment of a patient with a giant pheochromocytoma
Publisher
Association of Oncologist Real Clinical Practice OncoPractitioner
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