Familial isolated pheochromocytoma presenting a new mutation in the von Hippel-Lindau gene.

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We report a novel germ-line point mutation in the von Hippel-Lindau (vhl) gene in a family with childhood occurrence of isolated pheochromocytoma. Two members of this family (the father and his son) were affected. The son had bilateral adrenal pheochromocytoma and the father had one adrenal and one extra-adrenal localization. Both patients presented cardiac arrest while exposed to surgical stress and severe...

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