Article
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
Abstract excerpt
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...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adrenal Gland Neoplasms
- Adult
- Alleles
- Child
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Pedigree
- Pheochromocytoma
- Prospective Studies
- von Hippel-Lindau Disease