Multiple endocrine neoplasia IIA found at autopsy.
A case is presented of a 32-year-old black female who died from adult respiratory distress syndrome with disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. At autopsy she was found to have typical multiple endocrine neoplasia IIA, a combination of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid, bilateral adrenal pheochromocytoma and nodular hyperplasia of the parathyroid.
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D000328:Adult; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D009377:Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia / Q000473:pathology*; D010280:Parathyroid Glands / Q000473:pathology; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000473:pathology*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*