title: [A case of cystic pheochromocytoma mimicking liver abscess].
abstract: A 64-year-old man presented to our hospital feeling ill with epigastralgia. Computed tomography (CT) showed right suprarenal cystic tumor. High urinary catecholamine level was noted. Based on metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scintigraphy, magnetic resonance imaging and blood tests, preoperative diagnosis was adrenal pheochromocytoma. En-bloc resection of the tumor and the right kidney was performed. The cyst contained yellowish serous fluid, which had a catecholamine level about 3,000 times that in the blood. The histological diagnosis was cystic pheochromocytoma. Pathogenesis of cystic adrenal tumor is discussed briefly.
authors.affiliation: The Department of Urology, Tane General Hospital.
authors.forename: Yuta
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Toyoshima
authors.forename: Yukinari
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hosokawa
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takada
authors.forename: Yoshiki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Kiyohide
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fujimoto
authors.forename: Yoshihiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hirao
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology