Brief report: Evidence of MEN-2 in the original description of classic pheochromocytoma

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1311-1315

  Neumann, Hartmut P H ^a   Vortmeyer, Alexander ^b   Schmidt, Dieter ^a   Werner, Martin ^a   Erlic, Zoran ^a,c   Cascon, Alberto ^a,d   Bausch, Birke ^a   Januszewicz, Andrzej ^e   Eng, Charis ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Poland)

^f TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RET;

ADRENAL TUMOR; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; RELATIVE; SARCOMA; SIPPLE SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTORY; MALE; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; THYROID TUMOR;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2A; PEDIGREE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34748870667     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa071407     Document Type: Article

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