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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
10%
This is a biopsy from a patient with episodic headache, sweating, tachycardia, and hypertension.
The histology is a pheochromocytoma from an adrenectomy specimen. The 10% rule is that 10% pheos are malignant, 10% are extra-adrenal, 10% arise in childhood, 10% are familial, 10% recur after being resected, and you’re 10 times more likely to see this on an exam than in real life.
This is a biopsy from a patient with episodic headache, sweating, tachycardia, and hypertension.
Pheochromocytoma
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ReplyDeleteThe histology is a pheochromocytoma from an adrenectomy specimen. The 10% rule is that 10% pheos are malignant, 10% are extra-adrenal, 10% arise in childhood, 10% are familial, 10% recur after being resected, and you’re 10 times more likely to see this on an exam than in real life.