Article
[Von Hippel-Lindau disease and renal cancer: 10 years of genetic progress. GEFVHL (French-Speaking Study Group on von Hippel-Lindau disease)].
Progres en urologie : journal de l'Association francaise d'urologie et de la Societe francaise d'urologie - 1 Jun 1998
Richard S, Beroud C, Joly D, Chretien Y, Benoit G
Abstract excerpt
Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is a genetic disease predisposing to the development of various tumours (haemangioblastomas of the neuraxis and retina, tumours of the membranous labyrinth, renal clear cell carcinomas or cysts, phaeochromocytomas, pancreatic cysts or tumours, epididymal cystadenomas), affecting one in 36,000 people. Renal cancer constitutes one of the main causes of death. The VHL gene, situated...
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