[Increase of excretion of urinary catecholamines and its catabolites in a case of pulmonary sarcomatous tumor]

M Candito; S Bekri; P Monpoux; F Parisot; R Mariani; P Chambon

[Increase of excretion of urinary catecholamines and its catabolites in a case of pulmonary sarcomatous tumor]

Pathol Biol (Paris). 1992 Dec;40(10):1003-5.

[Article in French]

Authors

M Candito¹, S Bekri, P Monpoux, F Parisot, R Mariani, P Chambon

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Biochimie, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France.

PMID: 1299807

Abstract

A five-year-old child presented with a large undifferentiated sarcoma in the right lung. Urinary catecholamines were assayed as tumor markers. A short-lived but significant rise in urinary norepinephrine and dopamine followed by rises in urinary levels of corresponding breakdown products were evidenced.

Publication types

Case Reports
English Abstract

MeSH terms

Child, Preschool
Dopamine / urine*
Epinephrine / urine*
Homovanillic Acid / urine
Humans
Lung Neoplasms / urine*
Male
Norepinephrine / urine*
Normetanephrine / urine
Sarcoma / urine*

Substances

Normetanephrine
Dopamine
Norepinephrine
Homovanillic Acid
Epinephrine