| Literature DB >> 6331159 |
D Cornish, A Pont, D Minor, J L Coombs, J Bennington.
Abstract
A 56-year-old woman with many unusual manifestations of von Hippel-Lindau syndrome is described. In addition to retinal hemangioblastomas, pheochromocytoma, renal cell carcinoma, and multiple organ cysts, she had a cerebellar astrocytoma, pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, diabetes mellitus, thyrotoxicosis, and a metastatic calcitonin-secreting islet cell carcinoma. This case report documents the first example of a metastatic islet cell tumor in a patient with von Hippel-Lindau disease. The possible relationship between this disorder, the other neurocutaneous syndromes, and the multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes is discussed.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6331159 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(84)90450-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Med ISSN: 0002-9343 Impact factor: 4.965