Typical ocular findings in a patient with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2b syndrome

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 239, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 391-394

  Eter, Nicole ^a   Klingmüller, Dietrich ^b   Höppner, Wolfgang ^c   Spitznas, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CODON; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXON; EYE DISEASE; EYELID; FATALITY; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SLIT LAMP; SYMPTOM; SYNDROME; THICKNESS;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2B; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POINT MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SYNDROME; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0034961099     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170000245     Document Type: Article

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