A forme fruste of von Hippel-Lindau disease: a combination of adrenal pheochromocytoma and ipsilateral renal cell carcinoma--a case report.
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.
Horbach
J M
JM
University State Hospital, Department of Surgery, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Brenninkmeyer
S J
SJ
van de Velde
C J
CJ
Kruseman
A C
AC
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*