[Acute heart failure in pheochromocytoma in childhood. Case report and demonstration of therapeutic possibilities].

A noradrenaline-secreting phaeochromocytoma of extra-adrenal origin was found as cause of acute cardiac insufficiency in a 12-year-old child. After i.v. treatment with diuretics, digitalis and oral alpha-sympathicolysis with phenoxybenzamine the tumor was surgically removed several days later without further complications.