Case 9-2021: A 16-Year-Old Boy with Headache, Abdominal Pain, and Hypertension

N Engl J Med. 2021 Mar 25;384(12):1145-1155. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2027094.

Authors

Kristian R Olson¹, Katherine Nimkin¹, Ryan W Carroll¹, Nikolas Stathatos¹, Zehra Ordulu¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Departments of Pediatrics (K.R.O., R.W.C.), Medicine (K.R.O., N.S.), Radiology (K.N.), and Pathology (Z.O.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Pediatrics (K.R.O., R.W.C.), Medicine (K.R.O., N.S.), Radiology (K.N.), and Pathology (Z.O.), Harvard Medical School - both in Boston.

PMID: 33761211
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2027094

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Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Abdominal Pain / etiology
Adolescent
Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / complications
Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / pathology
Adrenal Glands / diagnostic imaging
Adrenal Glands / pathology*
Diagnosis, Differential
Headache / etiology*
Humans
Hypertension / etiology*
Male
Metanephrine / blood
Pheochromocytoma / complications
Pheochromocytoma / diagnosis*
Pheochromocytoma / pathology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Ultrasonography

Substances

Metanephrine