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USMLE · Question #437
A patient consults a physician because of a small lesion on the lips that, on biopsy, proves to be a mucosal neuroma. The patient's mother had medullary carcinoma of the thyroid. In addition to medull
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A patient consults a physician because of a small lesion on the lips that, on biopsy, proves to be a mucosal neuroma. The patient's mother had medullary carcinoma of the thyroid. In addition to medullary carcinoma of the thyroid, to which of the following conditions would this patient be particularly vulnerable?
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- AGastrinoma
- BInsulinoma
- CParathyroid adenoma
- DPheochromocytoma
- EPituitary adenoma
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#MEN2B syndrome#mucosal neuroma#medullary thyroid carcinoma#pheochromocytoma