Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 syndromes may be associated with renal malformations

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-42

  Lore F ^a   Talidis, F ^a   Di Cairano, G ^a   Renieri, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

FMTC; Germline mutations; Hirschsprung disease; Kidney; MEN 2; RET proto oncogene; Thyroid neoplasms; Urogenital abnormalities

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CALCIUM; THYROID HORMONE; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DETERMINATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY COMPENSATORY HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA; URINE LEVEL;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2A; PEDIGREE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 0035724172     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.2001.00846.x     Document Type: Article

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