What conditions are associated with pheochromocytoma?
• von Recklinghausen disease (neurofibromatosis)
• Tuberous sclerosis (de Bourneville or Pringle disease)
• Sturge-Weber syndrome
• von Hippel-Lindau disease
• Ataxia telangiectasia
• MEN syndromes:
• MEN type 2 (or 2a): pheochromocytoma (usually bilateral, but seldom synchronous), parathyroid adenoma, medullary thyroid carcinoma (which is typically diagnosed first)
• MEN type 3 (or 2b): pheochromocytoma, medullary carcinoma of thyroid, mucosal neuromas, abdominal gangliomas, Marfanoid body habitus (the prevalence of this syndrome is only about 5% of that of MEN 2 or 2a)
• Familial paraganglioma (typically associated with mutations in the succinate dehydrogenase gene)
