FAMILIAL PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA

Familial pheochromocytoma.

Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas (PGL) form the group of paraganglial tumours which can occur in any paraganglia from the skull base to the pelvic floor. The terminology is not uniform. While the World Health Organization (WHO) applies pheochromocytoma exclusively to adrenal tumours, many clinicians use the term pheochromocytoma also for extra-adrenal abdominal and thoracic tumours, since b...

Childhood Familial Pheochromocytoma

Childhood familial pheochromocytoma was investigated in four patients by abdominal computed tomographic scan, [ IJmetaiodobenzylguanidine scan, and vena caval catecholamine sampling. Results conflicted with surgical findings. Computed tomographic scan identified all four adrenal tumors but missed two mid line tumors in one patient. [I]metaiodobenzylguanidine scan identified two of three adrenal...

فئوکروموسیتوم راجعه و فئوکرموسیتوم فامیلیال RECURRENT PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA AND FAMILIAL PHEICHROMOCYTOMA

[Familial pheochromocytoma associated to neurofibromatosis type 1].

Childhood familial pheochromocytoma. Conflicting results of localization techniques.

Childhood familial pheochromocytoma was investigated in four patients by abdominal computed tomographic scan, [131I]metaiodobenzylguanidine scan, and vena caval catecholamine sampling. Results conflicted with surgical findings. Computed tomographic scan identified all four adrenal tumors but missed two midline tumors in one patient. [131I]metaiodobenzylguanidine scan identified two of three adr...