The genetic basis of pheochromocytoma: Who to screen and how?

Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 60-61

  Plouin, Pierre François ^a,b   Gimenez Roqueplo, Anne Paule ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CATECHOLAMINE; PROTEIN RET; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; VON HIPPEL LINDAU PROTEIN; RET PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOGENE RET; PARAGANGLIOMA; PHENOTYPE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE; ADRENAL TUMOR; ARTICLE; GENETICS; MUTATION;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 33748482328     PISSN: 17458366     EISSN: 17458374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpendmet0097     Document Type: Short Survey

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