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Section 8: References

Recommended Reading

The following articles are recommended to you by our Medical Advisors and Reviewers. If you have time to read only three articles, please read those marked
*** by Lonser (Lancet) and Eisenhofer and Lonser on ELST.

Please note: Information on the Internet is sometimes relocated. If you have difficulty finding one of the internet references, try a search engine to find its current location. PMID indicates an index reference for PubMed, an online resource for medical articles at www.pubmed.com

Al-Sobhi, S., et al., “Laparoscopic Partial Adrenalectomy for recurrent pheochromocytoma after open partial adrenalectomy in von Hippel-Lindau disease,” J Endourol. 2002;16(3):171-4.

American Academy of Ophthalmology, online brochures: “Laser Surgery in Ophthalmology,” and “Cryotherapy,” AAO, P.O. Box 7424, San Francisco, CA 94120-7424. +1 415 561-8500. http://www.aao.org

The National Eye Institute (www.nei.nih.gov) and the National Library of Medicine (www.nlm.nih.gov) are both excellent resources for new terms and treatments.

American Brain Tumor Association, “Dictionary for Brain Tumor Patients” and “A Primer of Brain Tumors,” ABTA, 2720 River Road, Suite 146, Des Plaines, IL 60018. (800) 886-2282 or +1 708 827-9910; Fax: +1 708 827-9918. http://hope.abta.org info@abta.org

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has information on policy and ethics on their website. See http://genetics.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/ashgmenu.htm

The Office of Biotechnology Activities maintains a website that contains information on the work of the Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on “Genetic Testing.” http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/

The Human Genome Institute has a section on Policy and Ethics that deals with the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project and genetic testing See http://www.genome.gov/PolicyEthics

Béroud, Chistophe, The Worldwide VHL Mutations Database, www.umd.be

Blodi, Christopher, et al., “Direct and Feeder Vessel Photocoagulation of Retinal Angiomas with Dye Yellow Laser,” Ophthalmology, 97 (1990) 791-797, with commentary by L. Fingerman and D. Saggan.

Chauveau, D., et al, “Renal involvement in von Hippel-Lindau disease.” Kidney Int. 1996 50:944-951.

Chew, Emily, et al, Von Hippel-Lindau disease: clinical considerations and the use of fluorescein-potentiated argon laser therapy for treatment of retinal angiomas. Seminars in Ophthalmology. 7(3):182-91, 1992 Sep.

Choo, Daniel I., et al, “Endolymphatic Sac Tumors in von Hippel-Lindau Disease,” J. Neurosurg, 2004; 100:480-487.

Choyke, P.L., et al., “The Natural History of Renal Lesions in von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome.” Am J Roentgen 1992 159:1229-1234.

Choyke, Glenn, et al., “Von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Genetic, Clinical, and Imaging Features.” Radiology, March 1995, pp. 639-641. http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/papers/vonhip/toc.html

Collins, Debra, Information for Genetic Professionals http://www.kumc.edu/gec/prof/kugenes.html

Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer Prevention: The Good News, U.S. National Institutes of Health, publication 87-2878, and the Five-a-Day Program. 1-800-4CANCER.

Dollfus, Hélène et al, Retinal hemangioblastoma in von Hippel-Lindau disease: a clinical and molecular study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2002 Sep; 43(9):3067-3074.

Drachenberg DE, Mena OJ, Choyke PL, Linehan WM, Walther MM. Parenchymal sparing surgery for central renal tumors in patients with hereditary renal cancers. J Urol. 2004 Jul;172(1):49-53. PMID: 15201735

Duan, Linehan, Klausner et al., “Characterization of the VHL tumor suppressor gene product.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 1995; 92:6459-6463.

Duffey, B. G., Choyke, P. L., Glenn, G., Grubb, R. L., Venzon, D., Linehan, W. M., and Walther, M. M. The Relationship Between Renal Tumor Size and Metastases in Patients with von Hippel-Lindau Disease. J Urol, 172: 63-65, 2004.

*** Eisenhofer, G., and K. Pacak. Diagnosis of pheochromocytoma. Harrison’s On-line.

Eisenhofer, Graeme, et al. Malignant pheochromocytoma: current status and initiatives for future progress. Endocrine-Related Cancer (2004) 11: 423-436.

El-Sayed, Yasser, Pregnancy and VHL. VHL Family Forum, 2001, www.vhl.org/newsletter/vhl2001/01eapreg.php

Glenn, G.M., et al, “Von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Clinical Review and Molecular Genetics,” Problems in Urology 1990 42:312-330.

Glenn et al, “Screening for von Hippel-Lindau Disease by DNA Polymorphism Analysis.” JAMA 1992 267:1226-1231.

Glenn et al, “Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease: distinct phenotypes suggest more than one mutant allele at the VHL locus.” Hum. Genet. 1991 87:207-210.

Goldfarb, David, H. Neumann, I. Penn, A. Novick, “Results of renal transplantation in patients with renal cell carcinoma and von Hippel-Lindau disease.” Transplantation. 1997 Dec 27; 64(12):1726-9.

Green et al, “Von Hippel-Lindau Disease in a Newfoundland kindred,” Canadian Med. Assn. Journal 1986 134:133-146.

Hammel, Pascal R., et al., Pancreatic Involvement in von Hippel-Lindau disease, Gastroenterology, 2000; 119(4), 1087-1095.

Herring, J. C., Enquist, E. G., Chernoff A.C., Linehan, W. M., Choyke, P. L., and Walther, M. M. Parenchymal Sparing Surgery in Patients with Hereditary Renal Cell Carcinoma - Ten Year Experience. The Journal of Urology, 165: 777-781, 2001.

Hoobyar AR, Ferrucci S, Anderson SF, Townsend JC. Juxtapapillary capillary hemangioblastoma. Optom and Vis Sci 2002 June;79(6): 346-352.

Hwang JJ, Uchio EM, Pavlovich CP, Pautler SE, Libutti SK, Linehan WM, Walther MM. Surgical management of multi-organ visceral tumors in patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease: a single stage approach. J Urol. 2003 Mar;169(3):895-8. PMID: 12576808

James, G. P., Hastening the Road to Diagnosis: the Role of the Broad Ligament Cystadenoma in Early Detection of VHL. VHL Family Forum, 1998, www.vhl.org/newsletter/vhl1998/98ccapmo.php

Kaelin, William G. Jr., “The von Hippel-Lindau gene, kidney cancer, and oxygen sensing.” J Am Soc Nephrol. 2003 Nov: 14(11):2703-2011.

Kahle, W., H. Leonhardt, and W. Platzer, Color Atlas and Textbook of Human Anatomy. Georg Thieme Pub., Stuttgart, 1978.

Lamiell et al, “Von Hippel Lindau Disease Affecting 43 Members of a Single Kindred.” Medicine 1989 68:1-29.

Latif, F., et al., “Identification of the von Hippel-Lindau Disease Tumor Suppressor Gene.” Science 1993 260:1317-1320.

Lenders J.W.M., K. Pacak, M.M. Walther, W.M. Linehan, M. Mannelli, P. Friberg, H.R. Keiser, D.S. Goldstein and G. Eisenhofer. Biochemical diagnosis of pheochromocytoma: Which test is best? Journal of the American Medical Association 287: 1427-1434, 2002.

Lonser, Russell R., et al, “Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Hemangioblastomas in patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease,” J. Neurosurg, 2003; 98(106-116)

*** Lonser, Russell R., et al, “Tumors of the Endolymphatic Sac in von Hippel-Lindau Disease,” N. E. J. Med. 2004; 350:2481-2486. PMID: 15190140

*** Lonser, Russell R., et al., “Von Hippel-Lindau Disease,” Lancet, 2003; 361(9374):2059-2067. PMID: 12814730

Maher, E. R., et al, “Von Hippel-Lindau disease: a genetic study,” J. Med. Genet. 1991 28:443-447.

Maher, E. R. et al., “Phenotypic expression in von Hippel-Lindau disease: Correlations with germline VHL gene mutations. J. Med. Genetics, 1996 33:328-332.

Maranchie, J. K., Walther, M. M., and Linehan, W. M. Early Identification of Patients with von Hippel Lindau Disease at Risk for Pheochromocytoma. Current Urology Reports, 2001.

Maranchie, J. K., Afonso, A., Albert, P., Phillips, J. L., Zhou, S., Peterson, J., Hurley, K., Riss, J., Vasselli, J. R., Ried, T., Zbar, B., Choyke, P., Walther, M. M., Klausner, R. D., and Linehan, W. M. Solid Renal Tumor Severity in von Hippel Lindau Disease is Related to Germline Deletion Length and Location. Human Mutation, 23: 40-46, 2004

Marcos, H.B., Libutti S., et al., “Neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas in von Hippel-Lindau disease: spectrum of appearances at CT and MR imaging with histopathologic comparison,” Radiology, 2002; 225(3):751-8.

McCue, Kathleen, and Ron Bonn, How to Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness. St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Megerian, CA, “Hearing Preservation Surgery for small Endolymphatic Sac Tumors in patients with von Hippel-Lindau syndrome,” Otol Neurotol, 2002; 23:378-387.

Neumann, H.P.H., et al. “Germline Mutations in Non-Syndromic Pheochromocytoma.” New England Journal of Medicine (2002) 346:1459-1466

Pacak, K. G. Eisenhofer, and I. Ilias. Diagnostic imaging of pheochromocytoma. Frontiers of Hormone Research 31:107-120, 2004. PMID: 14674307

Pacak K. G. Eisenhofer, and H.R. Keiser. Pheochromocytoma. In L.S. DeGroot, J.L. Jameson (eds) Textbook of Endocrinology. 5th edition. Elsevier Science Inc., Philadelphia “in press”.

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Richard, S., et al, Pheochromocytoma as the first manifestation of von Hippel-Lindau disease. Surgery, 1994, 116: 1076-1081.

Richard, S., et al. La maladie de von Hippel-Lindau: une maladie à impact tissulaire multiple. Press Méd., 1998, 27:1112-1120.

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Sgambati, M. T., Stolle, C. A., Choyke, P. L., Walther, M. M., Zbar, B., Linehan, W. M., and Glenn, G. M. Mosaicism in von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Lessons from Kindreds with Germline Mutations Identified in Offspring with Parents Mosaic for VHL. Am J Hum Genet, 66: 84-91, 2000.

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Singh AD, Shields CL, Shields JA. von Hippel-Lindau Disease. Surv Ophthalmol 2001 Sept-Oct;46(2):117-142

Steinbach, Novick, et al., “Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma in von Hippel-Lindau Disease: A Multi-Center Study.” Journal of Urology, June 1995.

Stolle, C., et al, “Improved Detection of Germline Mutations in the von Hippel-Lindau disease tumor-suppressor gene,” Human Mutat, 1998; 12:417-423

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Walther MM, Reiter R, Keiser HR, Choyke PL, Venzon D, Hurley K, Gnarra JR, Reynolds JC, Glenn GM, Zbar B, Linehan WM. Clinical and genetic characterization of pheochromocytoma in von Hippel-Lindau families: comparison with sporadic pheochromocytoma gives insight into natural history of pheochromocytoma. J Urol. 1999 Sep;162(3 Pt 1):659-64. PMID: 10458336

Walther, MM, Herring, J., Choyke, P. L., and Linehan, W. M. Laparoscopic partial adrenalectomy in patients with hereditary forms of pheochromocytoma. J Urol, 164: 14-17, 2000. PMID: 10840414

Walther MM. New therapeutic and surgical approaches for sporadic and hereditary pheochromocytoma. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Sep;970:41-53. Review. PMID: 12381540

Walther, McC., et al., “Parenchymal Sparing Surgery in patients with hereditary renal cell carcinoma.” J. Urology 1995 153:913-916.

Wanebo, J. E., et al., “The natural history of hemangioblastomas of the central nervous system in patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease,” J. Neurosurg, 2003, 98:82-94.

Welch, R. B., “Von Hippel-Lindau Disease: The Recognition and Treatment of Early Angiomatosis Retinae and the use of Cryosurgery as an Adjunct to Therapy.” Trans. Am. Ophthalmol. Soc. 1970 68:367-424.

Willett, Walter C., Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, copyright 2001, Simon & Schuster. Pyramid developed by the Harvard School of Public Health, www.hsph.harvard.edu (copyright 2004 President and Fellows of Harvard College).

Yang H, Kaelin WG Jr., et al., “Analysis of von Hippel-Lindau hereditary cancer syndrome: Implications of oxygen sensing.” Methods Enzymol. 2004; 381:320-335

Zbar, Berton, Chief, Frederick Cancer Research Facility, Role of the National Cancer Institute in kidney cancer research http://web.ncifcrf.gov/research/kidney/bassci.html

Section 9: Prepared by . . .

Members of the VHL Family Alliance -- Edited by Joyce Wilcox Graff
with the kind assistance of

Lloyd M. Aiello, M.D., Beetham Eye Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Lloyd P. Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., Beetham Eye Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Mass.

Lewis S. Blevins, Jr., M.D., Endocrinology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Michael Brown, O.D., Veterans Administration, Huntsville, Alabama

Jerry D. Cavallerano, Ph.D., Optometry, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Emily Y. Chew, M.D., Ophthalmology, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

Daniel Choo, M.D., Otolaryngology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Debra L. Collins, M.S., Department of Genetics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City

Graeme Eisenhofer, Ph.D., Endocrinology, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Yasser El-Sayed, M.D., Obstetrics, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California

Joal Fischer, M.D. and Tina B. Farney, SupportWorks, Charlotte, North Carolina

Vincent Giovannucci, O.D., medical cartoonist, Auburn, Massachusetts

Gladys M. Glenn, M.D., Ph.D., Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Michael B. Gorin, M.D., Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jane Green, M.S., Ph.D., Community Medicine, Health Sciences Center, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

David Gross, M.D., Endocrinology, Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Pascal Hammel, M.D., Gastroenterology, Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France

Yujen Edward Hsia, M.D., Medical Genetics, Retired, Honolulu, Hawaii

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland

G. P. James, M.S., Medical writer, and Frank James, Illustrator, Springfield, Ohio

William G. Kaelin, Jr., Genetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

Jeffrey Kim, M.D., Neurotology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland

James M. Lamiell, M.D., Clinical Investigation Regulatory Office, AMEDDC&S, Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Jacques W. M. Lenders, M.D., Internal Medicine, St. Radboud University Hospital, Nymegen, the Netherlands

Richard Alan Lewis, M.D., M.S., Ophthalmology, Pediatrics and Genetics, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

John Libertino, M.D., Urology, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts

Steven K. Libutti, M.D., Endocrinology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

W. Marston Linehan, Chief, Urologic Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

Cornelius J. M. Lips, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Joseph A. Locala, M.D., Psychiatry and Psychology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Russell R. Lonser, M.D., Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland

Eamonn R. Maher, M.D., Medical Genetics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, U.K.

Virginia V. Michels, M.D., Chair, Department of Medical Genetics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Haring J.W. Nauta, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosurgery, University of Texas, Galveston, Texas

Hartmut P. H. Neumann, M.D., Department of Nephrology, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany, and the VHL Study Group in Germany

Andrew Novick, M.D., Urology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Edward H. Oldfield, M.D., Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland

The Illustration Studios of Stansbury, Ronsaville, Wood

Stéphane Richard, M.D., Ph.D., Oncogenetics, Faculté de Médecine, Paris-Sud and Bicêtre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, and the International French-Speaking VHL Study Group

Armand Rodriguez, M.D., Internal Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

R. Neil Schimke, M.D., Ph.D., Endocrinology and Genetics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas

Taro Shuin, M.D., Urology, Kochi Medical School, Kochi, Japan

McClellan M. Walther, M.D., Urologic Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

Robert B. Welch, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland

Gary L. Wood, Psy.D., Psychology, Wood and Associates, Tampa, Florida

Berton Zbar, M.D., Chief, Laboratory of Immunobiology, National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, Maryland


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