Urinary bladder pheochromocytoma managed with TURBT. Case report and review of literature

Hassan Alkhatatbeh; Dima Alzaghari; Sufian Alharahsheh; Malik Ayyad

doi:10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101291

Urinary bladder pheochromocytoma managed with TURBT. Case report and review of literature

Urol Case Rep. 2020 Jun 2:33:101291. doi: 10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101291. eCollection 2020 Nov.

Authors

Hassan Alkhatatbeh^{1

2}, Dima Alzaghari^{3

4}, Sufian Alharahsheh², Malik Ayyad⁵

Affiliations

¹ Hashemite university, Faculty of medicine, Department of general and special surgery, urology division, Zarqa, 13133, Jordan. P.O BOX 330127, Jordan.
² Prince Hamzah Hospital, urology department, 11118, Amman, Jordan.
³ Hashemite University, faculty of medicine, Zarqa, 13133, Jordan.
⁴ Prince Hamzah hospital, 11118, Amman, Jordan.
⁵ Mutah university, faculty of medicine, department of urology, karak, 61710, Jordan.

Abstract

Bladder pheochromocytomas are rare catecholamine-secreting tumours of chromaffin cells. Sympathetic system stimulation due to Catecholamine over secretion during micturation is the most common presentation. Unsuspected bladder pheochromocytoma can result in hypertensive crisis during transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT). In contrast to the urothelial tumours, bladder pheochromocytomas are hypervascular on enhanced CT scan. In this article we report a case of pheochromocytoma managed successfully by TURBT and followed up for 1 year.

Keywords: Bladder pheochromocytoma; Extra-adrenal; Paraganglioma.

Publication types

Case Reports