ea0011p78 | Clinical case reports | ECE2006
McCallum RW
, Stanton P
, Walker S
, Parameswaran V
, Greenaway T
Phaeochromocytomas and paragangliomas arising as part of familial syndromes such as multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)2 or von-Hippel Lindau syndrome (VHL) are more likely to be malignant and multiple. Recently the role of mutations in the SDH genes (encoding subunits of succinate dehydrogenase) have also been identified as important in the aetiology of such tumours. We report a case where identification of an apparently sporadic metastatic phaeochromocytoma was found to be co...