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.

Authors

Bruna Babic
Dhaval Patel
Rachel Aufforth
Yasmine Assadipour, George Washington University
Samira M Sadowski
Martha Quezado
Naris Nilubol
Tamara Prodanov
Karel Pacak
Electron Kebebew

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Journal

Surgery

Volume

161

Issue

1

DOI

10.1016/j.surg.2016.05.059

Keywords

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

APA Citation

Babic, B., Patel, D., Aufforth, R., Assadipour, Y., Sadowski, S., Quezado, M., Nilubol, N., Prodanov, T., Pacak, K., & Kebebew, E. (2017). 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.. Surgery, 161 (1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2016.05.059

Peer Reviewed

1