Pheochromocytoma. Presentation of a case

Abstract

The case of a 43-year-old patient is presented in  the Surgery office at the General Teaching Hospital "Dr. Agostinho Neto "with a history of controlled arterial hypertension, apparently of an essential type of several years of evolution, with a diagnosis of an incidental left adrenal tumor, apparently not functioning, that after an accidental fall in the surgery room begins with a paroxysmal hypertensive crisis Severe It is prepared with antihypertensives and is intervened with anatomopathological report of pheochromocytoma of the left adrenal gland.