Endocrine Abstracts

We report three generations of a family with MEN-2 A characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance and virtually 100% penetrance.The proband, 35-year-old man, was diagnosed and operated for pheochromocytoma of the right adrenal gland and medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) with lymph node metastasis in 2009. His mother turned out to be operated for bilateral pheochromocytoma at the age of 47 (in 1994) and had had a thyroid nodule. She died at the age of ...