Solution of the cl inical problem «Diagnostics of chromaffinoma» — possibilities of modern laboratory diagnostics

Abstract

The importance of modern diagnosis of catecholamines hypersecretion is stipulated by the possible cardiovascular and cerebral diseases up to lethal outcome in case of the absence of treatment; the development of nerve root syndrome with the increase of the size of tumor; the necessity of early detection of catecholamineproducing tumors within hereditary syndromes. The choice of the most precise anddiagnostically meaningful laboratory test at the primary level of diagnosis allows verifying or excluding hypersecretion of catecholamines and choosing further way of patient examination.