Neuroendocrine Cancer

Research on neuroendocrine cancer reported by scientists at Charite University

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, November 2nd, 2007

"' A 12-year-old girl presenting with intermittent epigastric pains and diarrhea was referred to our clinic. Diagnostic work-up revealed nonfunctional bilateral adrenal pheochromocytomas as well as a neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreatic head," researchers in Berlin, Germany report.

"This is the first report on the combination of a neuroendocrine pancreatic tumor with adrenal pheochromocytoma in a pediatric patient with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease. von Hippel-Lindau disease was confirmed by molecular genetic analysis of peripheral blood lymphocytes, which revealed the mutation VHL c. 695 G> A. The family history showed also VHL disease in the mother who carried...

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Source: Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly (2007-11-02)

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