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On October 24th, PUTH Urology Department, Anesthesiology Department and Operation Theater operated a resection for a 9-year-old girl Xiao Xia, who suffered from giant adrenal pheochromocytoma.

According to medical literature retrieval, children pheochromocytoma is rare in clinic, and it is about 2/100000 incidence and harmful. Because of increasing blood pressure, patients always completely lose vision and hearing or even die without timely treatment. With sufficient preparation before and tight monitoring in progress, Xiao Xia’s operation accomplished successfully by joint efforts of Urology Department, Anesthesiology Department and Operation Theater.

(Translated by DING Mengkun, Proof by CHEN Peng and WANG Yu)

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