ea0041ep84 | Adrenal medulla | ECE2016
Roy Maitrayee
, Agarwal Shipra
, Sharma Mehar Chand
, Gupta Poonam
, Khurana M L
, Khagawat Rajesh
, Tandon Nikhil
Introduction: Pheochromocytomas (PHEOs) and paragangliomas (PGLs) are rare neuroendocrine tumors arising from chromaffin cells within adrenal medulla and autonomic paragranglia respectively. Recent evidences show that nearly one-third patients harbour germline mutation, namely in von Hippel-Lindau (VHL), REarranged during Transfection (RET), neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF 1) and succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) complex genes. However, the tumor morphology arising in various syndrom...