title: [Pheochromocytoma and its diagnostic pitfalls].
abstract: A sixty-year-old man experienced successively over two years several episodes of circulatory collapse and meningeal hemorrhage, a myocardial infarction, an episode of ketoacidosis and a seizure before acute abdominal pain with fever related to the sudden, partial, necrosis of his tumor, led to the discovery of a pheochromocytoma. This observation exemplifies the multiple clinical aspects and diagnostic pitfalls of this secreting tumor. It underscores the misleading nature of normotensive pheochromocytomas.
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007022:Hypotension / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology
vernacular_title: Le phéochromocytome et ses pièges diagnostiques.