title: [Splenic infarct, lactate acidosis, and pulmonary edema as manifestations of a pheochromocytoma].
abstract: The case of a 45-year-old woman with pheochromocytoma, who presented with severe abdominal pain and headache, diabetes mellitus, lactic acidosis and pulmonary edema, is described and discussed. Spleen infarction, not so far described as an ischemic complication of pheochromocytoma, was seen in computer tomography. After medical pretreatment with labetalol, a pheochromocytoma (2 x 2 cm) of the left adrenal gland was removed. The postoperative course was uneventful.
authors.affiliation: Stadtspital Triemli, Medizinische Klinik, Zürich.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bischof
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Günthard
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Straumann
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bertel
mesh_terms: D000140:Acidosis, Lactic / Q000209:etiology*; D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000209:etiology*; D013159:Splenic Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Milzinfarkt, Laktatazidose und Lungenödem als Manifestationen eines Phäochromozytoms.