Catalog

Phaeochromocytoma

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Phaeochromocytoma – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/13029801

A neuroendocrine tumour 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, usually noradrenaline (norepinephrine) and adrenaline (epinephrine).