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Pheochromocytomas are diagnosed incidentally and at older age in neurofibromatosis type 1.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Mar 2017
Moramarco Jessica, El Ghorayeb Nada, Dumas Nadine, Nolet Serge, Boulanger Luce, Burnichon Nelly, Lacroix André, Elhaffaf Zaki, Gimenez Roqueplo Anne-Paule, Hamet Pavel, Bourdeau Isabelle
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INTRODUCTION: Guidelines do not currently recommend routine systematic hormonal screening for pheochromocytoma (PHEO) in all/normotensive patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), in contrast to other PHEO-predisposing genetic syndromes such as Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome and multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2. OBJECTIVES: To characterize and compare parameters of PHEO in patients with NF1 to patients with or...
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