Pheochromocytoma: A rare cause of abdominal pain identified in a family medicine outpatient department setting
SRK Teja, Nisarg Aravindan, Athulya V. Ajith, Aakash Sachdeva, Joen Mathew, Santosh Kumar · 2025
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Teja and five co-authors report a rare tumor found behind common belly pain in a young man. Their twenty twenty-five case report comes from a family medicine clinic. Abdominal pain is an everyday complaint, but this case had red flags: three months of right loin pain, ten kilograms of weight loss, and a month of cough.
Scans showed a large, mixed mass above the right kidney, with spread to nearby nodes and the chest lining. The picture fit a malignant pheochromocytoma, a rare adrenal tumor. The patient was sent to endocrinology for care. The authors stress the family doctor's role in spotting red flags early and pushing fast referral, which can change outcomes in serious disease.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | SRK Teja, Nisarg Aravindan, Athulya V. Ajith, Aakash Sachdeva, Joen Mathew, Santosh Kumar |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 10 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |