Pediatric patients with pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma should have routine preoperative genetic testing for common susceptibility genes in addition to imaging to detect extra-adrenal and metastatic tumors.

Babic, Bruna

Pediatric patients with pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma should have routine preoperative genetic testing for common susceptibility genes in addition to imaging to detect extra-adrenal and metastatic tumors. [electronic resource] - Surgery 01 2017 - 220-227 p. digital

Publication Type: Journal Article

1532-7361

10.1016/j.surg.2016.05.059 doi


Adolescent
Adrenal Gland Neoplasms--diagnostic imaging
Carrier Proteins--genetics
Child
Cohort Studies
Cytoskeletal Proteins
Diagnostic Tests, Routine
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genetic Testing
Germ-Line Mutation
Head and Neck Neoplasms--diagnostic imaging
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging--methods
Male
Molecular Chaperones
Neoplasm Metastasis--genetics
Paraganglioma--diagnostic imaging
Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal--diagnostic imaging
Pheochromocytoma--diagnostic imaging
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography--methods
Preoperative Care--methods
Retrospective Studies
Succinate Dehydrogenase--genetics
Young Adult