Case 35-1973

Abstract

Presentation of CaseA 20-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of thyroid nodules.At the age of nine years he was told of a heart murmur. He was well until one year before admission, when he began to experience brief episodes of palpitation. Three months before entry he consulted a physician, who told him that he had a thyroid nodule and referred him to this hospital. There was no history of hypertension, headache, flushing, diarrhea, nephrolithiasis or constipation.A brother, aged 25 years, had undergone excision of a pheochromocytoma and had had multifocal medullary carcinoma of the thyroid . . .