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Clinical and genetic characterization of pheochromocytoma in von Hippel-Lindau families: comparison with sporadic pheochromocytoma gives insight into natural history of pheochromocytoma.
The Journal of urology - 1 Sept 1999
Walther M M, Reiter R, Keiser H R, Choyke P L, Venzon D, Hurley K, Gnarra J R, Reynolds J C, Glenn G M, Zbar B, Linehan W M
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Families with von Hippel-Lindau disease have variable risk of pheochromocytoma. Patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease and pheochromocytoma identified by screening can have no characteristic signs or symptoms. Families with von Hippel-Lindau disease were screened and followed to describe the natural history of von Hippel-Lindau pheochromocytoma, and to correlate these findings with von Hippel-Lindau...
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