Von Hippel-Lindau Pheochromocytomas, CT
Computed tomography (CT) scan with contrast media of bilateral pheochromocytomas (highlighted in orange). This patient has von Hippel-Lindau syndrome. A pheochromocytoma or phaeochromocytoma (PCC) is a neuroendocrine tumor of the medulla of the adrenal glands (originating in the chromaffin cells), or extra-adrenal chromaffin tissue that failed to involute after birth and secretes high amounts of catecholamines, mostly epinephrine, plus norepinephrine to a lesser extent. Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) is a disease which results from a mutation in the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor gene on chromosome This image has been color-enhanced.
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