found in the adrenal medulla, whereas those found along the para-vertebral and para-aortic axis, but outside the adrenals, are called paragangliomas. The pheochromocytomas can be a part of some of the hereditary syndromes, including MEN2, VHL, NF1, and
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mutation carriers among pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma patients is of clinical importance but in principle requires extensive mutation screenings in a large group of patients – as several genes are involved, and hereditary predisposition is often
Martin Ullrich, Josephine Liers, Mirko Peitzsch, Anja Feldmann, Ralf Bergmann, Ulrich Sommer, Susan Richter, Stefan R Bornstein, Michael Bachmann, Graeme Eisenhofer, Christian G Ziegler, and Jens Pietzsch
Introduction Adrenal pheochromocytomas and extra adrenal paragangliomas (PPGLs) are rare catecholamine-producing tumors of chromaffin cell origin ( Lenders et al. 2005 , Harari & Inabnet 2011 , Jemal et al. 2011 ). In contrast to most
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adrenal medulla. Tumors called paragangliomas can arise anywhere in the distribution of normal paraganglia. By definition an intra-adrenal paraganglioma (PG) is called a pheochromocytoma (PC) ( Lloyd et al. 2017 ). At least 40% of pheochromocytomas and
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neurodegenerative disease ( Bourgeron et al . 1995 , Parfait et al . 2000 ). In contrast, germline heterozygous mutations in the genes encoding the SDH subunits result in hereditary pheochromocytoma–paraganglioma syndrome ( Baysal et al . 2000 , Neumann et al
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frequently accompanied by illegitimate activation of hypoxia responses at normal oxygen levels (‘pseudohypoxia’, or the Warburg effect) ( Warburg 1956 , Ruan et al. 2009 ). Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs) are tumors of the adrenal medulla
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with a PASS score of four or higher were classified as malignant. All pheochromocytomas lacked a positive familial history indicating hereditary disease and had no mutations in the SDHB , SDHD and VHL genes as assessed by Sanger sequencing. Written
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known as pheochromocytoma ( Lenders et al. 2005 ). PGL can be characterized by hypertension due to the secretion of catecholamines, though most cases are asymptomatic. PGL is typically a slow-growing tumor and many cases are benign and are curable by