Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2a Presenting with Pheochromocytoma and Pituitary Macroadenoma

Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2A (MEN-2a) is a rare disease associated with tumors of endocrine organs. Presentation most commonly is with medullary thyroid cancer and infrequently with other complaints. Pituitary adenoma has been seen coincidentally with this disease very rarely. Presented is a...

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Autores principales: Heinlen, Jonathan E., Buethe, David D., Culkin, Daniel J., Slobodov, Gennady
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3200135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22091429
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/732452
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author Heinlen, Jonathan E.
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description Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2A (MEN-2a) is a rare disease associated with tumors of endocrine organs. Presentation most commonly is with medullary thyroid cancer and infrequently with other complaints. Pituitary adenoma has been seen coincidentally with this disease very rarely. Presented is a case of coincident MEN-2a with a symptomatic pituitary adenoma and an asymptomatic pheochromocytoma. A brief review is also provided.
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spelling pubmed-32001352011-11-16 Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2a Presenting with Pheochromocytoma and Pituitary Macroadenoma Heinlen, Jonathan E. Buethe, David D. Culkin, Daniel J. Slobodov, Gennady ISRN Oncol Case Report Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2A (MEN-2a) is a rare disease associated with tumors of endocrine organs. Presentation most commonly is with medullary thyroid cancer and infrequently with other complaints. Pituitary adenoma has been seen coincidentally with this disease very rarely. Presented is a case of coincident MEN-2a with a symptomatic pituitary adenoma and an asymptomatic pheochromocytoma. A brief review is also provided. International Scholarly Research Network 2011 2011-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3200135/ /pubmed/22091429 http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/732452 Text en Copyright © 2011 Jonathan E. Heinlen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2a Presenting with Pheochromocytoma and Pituitary Macroadenoma
title Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2a Presenting with Pheochromocytoma and Pituitary Macroadenoma
title_full Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2a Presenting with Pheochromocytoma and Pituitary Macroadenoma
title_fullStr Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2a Presenting with Pheochromocytoma and Pituitary Macroadenoma
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title_short Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2a Presenting with Pheochromocytoma and Pituitary Macroadenoma
title_sort multiple endocrine neoplasia 2a presenting with pheochromocytoma and pituitary macroadenoma
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