The First International Symposium on Pheochromocytoma ... Inadequate methods to distinguish malignant from benign tumors and a lack of effective treatments for malignancy are important problems ...

Low-osmolar, contrast-enhanced CT can be safely used in patients with pheochromocytoma. “This tool will enhance physicians' abilities to diagnose and treat patients with pheochromocytoma ...

If a mass was found by CT, then mIBG scintigraphy (for a mass >2 cm) or MRI (for a mass <2 cm), should be performed next, regardless of whether such a lesion was a paraganglioma or a pheochromocytoma.

A pheochromocytoma is an intra-adrenal paraganglioma ... clinical and/or biochemical evidence of a tumor Although CT and MRI have excellent sensitivity for detecting most catecholamine-producing ...