Adrenal Lymphangioma Masquerading as a Catecholamine Producing Tumor

Table 1

Patient’s catecholamine levels before and after left adrenalectomy.

	2009; (Preoperative)	Reference range	2013; (Preoperative)	2013; (Postoperative)	Reference range
Plasma-free normetanephrine	nd	nd	1.6 nmol/L	0.53 nmol/L	<0.90 nmol/L
Plasma-free metanephrine	nd	nd	<0.20 nmol/L	<0.20 nmol/L	<0.50 nmol/L
Plasma norepinephrine	nd	nd	891 pg/mL	659 pg/mL	0–500 pg/mL
Plasma epinephrine	nd	nd	52 pg/mL	24 pg/mL	0–100 pg/mL
Urine normetanephrine		110–1050 μg/24 hours		nd	50–800 μg/24 hours
Urine metanephrines	254 μg/24 hours	35–460 μg/24 hours	123 μg/24 hours	nd	0–300 μg/24 hours
Urine norepinephrine		0–140 μg/24 hours		nd	0–100 μg/24 hours
Urine epinephrine	16 μg/24 hours	0–32 μg/24 hours	10.2 μg/24 hours	nd	0–20 μg/24 hours
Urine vanillylmandelic acid		0.0–7.5 μg/24 hours	nd	nd	nd

nd: not done.
Results outside the reference range are indicated in bold.