• Internal medicine · Jan 2014

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    Coexistence of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) and pheochromocytoma in three cases of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) with a review of the literature.

    • Ahmet Gorgel, Devrim Dolek Cetinkaya, Fusun Salgur, Mustafa Demirpence, Husnu Yilmaz, Ece Harman Karaman, Pelin Tutuncuoglu, Gonca Oruk, Mitat Bahceci, Aysegul Akder Sari, Aysegul Aksoy Altinboga, and Irem Paker.
    • Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Turkey.
    • Intern. Med. 2014 Jan 1; 53 (16): 1783-9.

    AbstractIt is well known that neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is uncommonly associated with pheochromocytoma development and also, to a larger extent, with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). We herein document three cases with the rare condition of NF1 coexisting with GIST and pheochromocytoma, while one of them also has a composite tumor and another has papillary thyroid carcinoma.

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