Article
von Hippel-Lindau disease: recent advances and therapeutic perspectives.
Expert review of anticancer therapy - 1 Apr 2003
Richard Stéphane
Abstract excerpt
von Hippel-Lindau disease is a hereditary cancer syndrome predisposing carriers to the development of a panel of highly vascularized tumors such as central nervous system and retinal hemangioblastomas, endolymphatic sac tumors, clear-cell renal cell carcinomas, pheochromocytomas and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. The disease is the foremost cause of inherited renal cell carcinomas, which is induced by germline...
Topics
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Mutation
- von Hippel-Lindau Disease
