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Three-decade investigation of familial pheochromocytoma. An allele of von Hippel-Lindau disease?
Archives of internal medicine - 22 Nov 1993
Tisherman S E, Tisherman B G, Tisherman S A, Dunmire S, Levey G S, Mulvihill J J
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BACKGROUND: Usually sporadic, pheochromocytoma can, on occasion, complicate genetic disorders, such as neurofibromatosis 1, von Hippel-Lindau disease, and multiple endocrine neoplasia 2; some families seem to have just pheochromocytoma, where it may have occurred by chance. The natural history of a large kindred believed to have an excess of pheochromocytoma 34 years ago was followed with the hypothesis that the...
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