A forme fruste of von Hippel-Lindau disease: a combination of adrenal pheochromocytoma and ipsilateral renal cell carcinoma--a case report

J M Horbach; S J Brenninkmeyer; C J van de Velde; A C Kruseman

A forme fruste of von Hippel-Lindau disease: a combination of adrenal pheochromocytoma and ipsilateral renal cell carcinoma--a case report

Surgery. 1989 Mar;105(3):436-41.

Authors

J M Horbach¹, S J Brenninkmeyer, C J van de Velde, A C Kruseman

Affiliation

¹ University State Hospital, Department of Surgery, Leiden, The Netherlands.

PMID: 2646747

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.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / pathology*
Angiomatosis / pathology*
Carcinoma, Renal Cell / pathology*
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Kidney Neoplasms / pathology*
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology*
Pheochromocytoma / pathology*
von Hippel-Lindau Disease / pathology*