Endocrine Abstracts

Fifty patients (male:female 23:27) with a phaeochromocytoma or paraganglionoma have been seen within the Oxford hospitals since 1985. Further information has been located on 48. Patients had a median age of 42.6 years (range 19.4-74.6) and a median follow up of 13.9 months postoperatively (range 0.6-146.3). The adenoma was unilateral in 44 cases (88%, left 20, right 22) and bilateral in 4 cases (8% 2 Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) 1 Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) 1 Sporadic)....