A 44 year-old hypertensive man with flushing, sudation while passe out water for 2 months. HTA : 177/109mmHg, P: 72p per min.
Ultrasound detected a hypoechoic mass which pushed in the bladder from behind may be a fibroma or a lymph node. The patient denied to manage his status.
One year later the patient came back with another chief complaint. Ultrasound noted the 32×18mm mass nearby his bladdermaybe a pheochromocytoma.
MSCT confirmed the pheochromocytoma close by the bladder.
Surgery removed the mass with a part of the bladder. Histology of the specimen proved a paraganglioma.
The patient remains well post-op.
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