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Genetic aspects of pheochromocytoma.
Endocrine regulations - 1 Mar 2001
Koch C A, Vortmeyer A O, Huang S C, Alesci S, Zhuang Z, Pacak K
Abstract excerpt
We here review the literature on genetics related to pheochromocytoma. About 10 percent of these neuroendocrine tumors are hereditary and are most often associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2), von Hippel-Lindau disease, and neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF 1). Hereditary tumor syndromes such as the aforementioned ones, are ideal to study the molecular pathogenesis of tumorigenesis as opposed to...
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