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To the Editor: The Case Record in the April 26 issue¹ describes a thoracic pheochromocytoma (paraganglioma) in a 19-year-old man and notes that his father received a diagnosis of hypertension in his 50s and that his mother had migraines. Although a partial differential diagnosis of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma on the basis of genetics has been discussed, this presentation is quickly dismissed as sporadic, with the note that the father's age at diagnosis points to essential hypertension.

Unless there were other facts not evident in the published Case Record, we are concerned. Although it is partly true that multiple endocrine neoplasia . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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