title: Pancreatic metastases from renal cell carcinoma in von Hippel-Lindau disease.
abstract: von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is an unusual inherited chromosomal dominant disease characterized by CNS hemangioblastomas and visceral neoplasms. Multiple abnormalities may involve the abdomen including pathology in the liver, pancreas, kidneys, and adrenal glands. The present case report describes a patient with renal cell carcinoma in von Hippel-Lindau disease. What was most unusual about this case was that the patient also developed pancreatic masses that were metastatic disease from renal cell carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Chambers
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Fishman
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Hruban
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D006623:von Hippel-Lindau Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis