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British Medical Bulletin 2006 79-80(1):137-140; doi:10.1093/bmb/ldm004
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Norman Vetter, Editor-in-Chief

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This edition of the British Medical Bulletin contains the usual wide range of review articles, from genetics to community care. There are two reviews on imaging, two on public health problems and two reviews on important clinical problems.

Moving through the reviews in our traditional manner, from those with the most theoretic content to those with most practical (though they all contain a great deal of both), we have first a review by Eamonn Maher in Birmingham (UK) on the Genetics of phaeochromocytoma (page 141).

At the end of the 20th Century, inherited phaeochromocytoma was generally considered to account for about 10% of all cases. He shows that recent advances examining the genetics of phaeochromocytoma susceptibility have revealed a much larger inherited contribution to its pathogenesis has been recognized. The identification of individuals with phaeochromocytoma susceptibility disorders (e.g. von Hippel-Lindau disease, succinate dehydrogenase subunit mutations, multiple endocrine neoplasia . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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