Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Von Hippel Lindau Disease (VHL) is an autosomal dominant inherited syndrome characterized by high susceptibility to the development of a wide spectrum of benign and malignant, endocrine and non-endocrine neoplasias in diverse organs of patients harboring a germline mutation in VHL tumor suppressor gene. The major clinical manifestations of VHL are brain, cerebellar and spinal cord hemangioblastoma, retinal angioma, pheochromocytoma, renal cell carcinoma an...