title: A forme fruste of von Hippel-Lindau disease: a combination of adrenal pheochromocytoma and ipsilateral renal cell carcinoma--a case report.
abstract: A patient with the combination of pheochromocytoma and renal cell carcinoma is reported, matching a forme fruste of von Hippel-Lindau disease. A review of the literature on this combination is given and a possible relation between the overlap syndrome, von Hippel-Lindau disease and the combination pheochromocytoma-renal cell carcinoma, is discussed.
authors.affiliation: University State Hospital, Department of Surgery, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Horbach
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Brenninkmeyer
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: van de Velde
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Kruseman
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D000798:Angiomatosis / Q000473:pathology*; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006623:von Hippel-Lindau Disease / Q000473:pathology*