What is pheochromacytoma?
It's a hormone secretary gland tumour associate with adrenal gland
Pheochromocytoma (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, that secretes high amounts of catecholamines, mostly norepinephrine, plus epinephrine to a lesser extent
Tumor of adrenal medulla which results in chronic hypertension due to catecholamine excess
Tumor of adrenal medulla glands result from secondry hypertesion by the execessive catecholomine