Patients with either sporadic or familial pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma diagnosed at or referred to the Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc (Universite´ catholique de Louvain) from May 2003 to May 2006 had DNA from peripheral blood screened for the coding parts of SDH, VHL and RET genes, performed by SSCP. A VHL germline mutation (D126N) was found in a Belgian patient with sporadic right jugulotympanic paraganglioma, diagnosed at 53, without any other VHL phenotypes. This patient was previously published in 12393546.

Patients with either sporadic or familial pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma diagnosed at or referred to the Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc (Universite´ catholique de Louvain) from May 2003 to May 2006 had DNA from peripheral blood screened for the coding parts of SDH, VHL and RET genes, performed by SSCP. A VHL germline mutation (D126N) was found in a Belgian patient with sporadic right jugulotympanic paraganglioma, diagnosed at 53, without any other VHL phenotypes. This patient was previously published in 12393546.