Sipple's Syndrome: Description of One Case

Abstract

The case reported involves a young woman with a medullary thyroid carcinoma. Only during autopsy was it possible to show a pheochromocytoma of the left adrenal gland; multiple foci of atypical proliferation were observed, only microscopically, also in the adrenal gland. The authors emphasize the difficulty of a correct diagnosis during life and outline the necessity of an accurate screening of family members of a patient with Sipple's syndrome.