Pheochromocytoma and medullary thyroid carcinoma: a new genotype-phenotype correlation of the RET protooncogene 891 germline mutation.

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Prior experience in kindreds with a codon 891 RET protooncogene mutation indicates that carriers of this mutation develop only hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma without evidence of other manifestations of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2. In this paper, we report the first documented case in which medullary thyroid carcinoma and pheochromocytoma were clinically expressed in members of a family affected by...

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