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Malignant pheochromocytoma with multiple vertebral metastases causing acute incomplete paralysis during pregnancy: Literature review with one case report.
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- Pheochromocytoma metastasis to the central nervous system: a case report and systematic review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Pooled it
- Preoperative embolization and en bloc resection of a metastatic pheochromocytoma of the cervical spine.Journal of cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery · 2024Article
- Major intraoperative bleeding and drastic change in circulatory dynamics in a pregnant patient with metastatic pheochromocytoma: a case report.JA clinical reports · 2022Article
- Clinical features and prognosis analysis of metastatic spinal pheochromocytoma: A single center retrospective study.Journal of bone oncology · 2020Article
- Collet-Sicard Syndrome as the Presentation of Malignant Pheochromocytoma.The Neurohospitalist · 2020Article
- Successful treatment of metastatic adrenocortical carcinoma in the spine: A case report and literature review.Medicine · 2019Review
- Surgical treatment of chondrosarcoma of the sacrum with cement augmentation: A case report.Medicine · 2019Article
- Multidisciplinary management of a large pheochromocytoma presenting with cardiogenic shock: a case report.BMC urology · 2019Article
- Surgical treatment of malignant paraganglioma with spinal invasion in a juvenile patient: A case report.Medicine · 2019Article
- Management of giant benign fibrous histiocytoma in the spinal region with pleural involvement: A case report.Medicine · 2019Article
- Surgical treatment of giant chordoma in the thoracic spine combining thoracoscopic and posterior spinal surgery: A case report.Medicine · 2019Article
- Surgical management of spinal metastases of thymic carcinoma: A case report and literature review.Medicine · 2019Review
- Successful treatment of malignant thymoma with sacrum metastases: A case report and review of literature.Medicine · 2018Review
- Surgical Treatment of Malignant Pheochromocytomas in Spine.Chinese medical journal · 2018Article
- Successful treatment of malignant pheochromocytoma with sacrum metastases: A case report.Medicine · 2018Article
- An unusual case of Adrenocortical Adenocarcinoma with Biochemical Masquerade of Pheochromocytoma.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
rationaleWe present a rare case of malignant pheochromocytoma with thoracic metastases during pregnancy that presented with symptoms of myelopathy and was treated with circumferential decompression, stabilization, and radiation. The management of this unique case is not well documented. The clinical manifestations, imaging results, pathological characteristics, treatment and prognosis of the case were analyzed. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 26-year-old pregnant woman with a history of paroxysmal hypertension during the second trimester presented with lower extremity weakness, numbness, urinary incontinence, and back pain. Imaging studies revealed a right adrenal pheochromocytoma, multiple metastases at T8, T11, T12, and the pelvis girdle causing significant multilevel cord compression and significant osteolytic lesions at T11 and T12. DIAGNOSES: We believe this is the first reported case of metastatic pheochromocytoma of the thoracic spine presenting with symptoms of myelopathy during pregnancy.
interventionsA healthy neonate was delivered by emergency caesarean section at 34 weeks. Subsequently, the patient underwent a circumferential spinal cord decompression and a stabilization procedure. OUTCOMES: The patient's neurological deficits improved significantly after the surgery, and the postoperative period was uneventful at the 6-month follow-up visit. LESSONS: This article emphasizes that metastatic pheochromocytoma of the spine, although rare, should be part of the differential when a patient presents with elevated blood pressure, weakness, and urinary incontinence.
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