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Prevalence

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  • usually benign tumors. 10% are malignant
  • a rare tumour among children
  • equally distributed between males and females and different ethnic origins
  • prevalent in less than 0.2% of patients with hypertension
  • predominantly sporadic in occurrence (90%)
  • 10% are associated with familial disorders like
    • MEN IIa or IIb syndrome
    • Von Recklinghausen disease (neurofibromatosis)
    • Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
    • not a feature in MEN 1 syndrome

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