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Genetic aspects of pheochromocytoma.
Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University - 1 Jan 2000
Kolačkov Katarzyna, Tupikowski Krzysztof, Bednarek-Tupikowska Grażyna
Abstract excerpt
Pheochromocytomas are derived from chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla which synthesize and secrete catecholamines, thus affecting the cardiovascular system and metabolic processes. Pheochromocytoma is a tumor of the following multicarcinoma hereditary syndromes: type 2 multiple endocrine neoplasia, von Hippel-Lindau disease, type 1 neurofibromatosis and the pheochromocytomas/paragangliomas syndrome....
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