Rare life-threatening bleeding due to spontaneous rupture of extraadrenal pheochromocytoma

Abstract

We present a case report of rare life-threatening bleeding due to spontaneous rupture of an extraadrenal pheochromocytoma-paraganglioma. A thirty eight year-old patient with developing hemorhagic shock underwent emergency surgery due to lifethreatening spontaneous retroperitoneal bleeding with surprising finding- histologically verified extraadrenal pheochromocytoma.

Keywords

• extraadrenal pheochromocytoma
• Wunderlich´s syndrome
• spontaneous bleeding into retroperitoneum