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[Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas: implications of new insights for diagnosis and treatment].
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde - 1 Mar 2008
van der Kleij-Corssmit E P M, Havekes B, Vriends A H J T, Jansen J C, Romijn J A
Abstract excerpt
The recent discovery of pathogenic mutations in genes encoding for succinate dehydrogenase subunits has led to the realization that pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas are much more often hereditary than was previously thought. Due to periodic surveillance of patients at enhanced genetic risk and a general increase in the frequency of abdominal imaging, an ever increasing proportion of the pheochromocytomas and...
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