Southern Medical Journal 1985-Jul
Hypercortisolism, diarrhea with steatorrhea, and massive proteinuria due to pheochromocytoma.
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Amelioration or cure of hypertension, hypercortisolism, diarrhea with steatorrhea, and massive proteinuria resulted from excision of a pheochromocytoma that contained immunoreactive ACTH, VIP, and somatostatin. Ectopic ACTH production by the tumor was clearly the cause of the hypercortisolism, and the possible involvement of VIP and somatostatin in the diarrhea and steatorrhea was considered. The response to tumor removal suggested that the mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis shown on renal biopsy was also a paraneoplastic phenomenon.