Article
Papillary thyroid carcinoma, parathyroid adenoma, and unexplained hypercalcitoninemia: an unusual presentation of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A?
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Sept 1998
Rone J K, Lane A G, Grinkemeyer M D
Abstract excerpt
Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2) is a rare syndrome of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) with pheochromocytoma and/or primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP), usually due to multigland hyperplasia. MEN 2 is associated with several RET protooncogene mutations. A 61-year-old woman with a famil...
Topics
- Adenoma
- Biopsy, Needle
- Calcitonin
- Carcinoma, Medullary
- Carcinoma, Papillary
- Drosophila Proteins
- Female
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2a
- Mutation
- Parathyroid Neoplasms
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret
- Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
- Thyroid Neoplasms
- Thyroidectomy