DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2021.v09i03.006

Pages: 216-220

Pheochromocytomas are rare tumors, developed at the expense of the adrenal medulla and paraganglia. The excess of catecholamines secreted leads to clinical symptomatology. The diagnosis of malignancy is made only by the presence of metastases from organs devoid of chromaffin tissue or by the appearance of neoplastic recurrences. A 20-year-old woman was reported to have hypertensive crises with cerebral and ocular repercussions. A malignant pheochromocytoma of the left adrenal gland with hepatic metastases was diagnosed and the patient underwent left adrenalectomy with hepatic metastasectomy and surgical portal embolization in preparation for a subsequent right hepatectomy.