Open AccessBilateral phaeochromocytoma during pregnancy
Author(s) -
CN Wijeyaratne,
AH Sheriffdecn,
HR Seneviratne
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ceylon medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2386-1274
pISSN - 0009-0875
DOI - 10.4038/cmj.v46i1.6522
Subject(s) - ceylon , medicine , medical journal , alternative medicine , sri lanka , family medicine , relevance (law) , public health , library science , law , nursing , pathology , south asia , ethnology , history , computer science , political science , programming language
Phaeochromocytoma during pregnancy is rare and life-threatening to both mother and fetus (1). Pregnancy leads to diagnostic difficulty, whereas early diagnosis and appropriate management improves the prognosis (2). Only a few hundred cases managed during pregnancy have been reported and, a s far as we know, there are no publications of bilateral tumour managed during pregnancy. We report a pregnancy complicated by bilateral phaeochromocytoma managed during a triage situation in Sri Lanka.
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