Careful investigation of a rare disease: insights into multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B
Menée à partir de données portant sur 345 patients présentant un syndrome de néoplasie endocrinienne multiple de type 2B, cette étude internationale rétrospective analyse, sur la période 1970-2016, l'évolution des traitements, de la survie chez les patients atteints d'un carcinome médullaire de la thyroïde et de l'incidence d'un phéochromocytome
“There is no better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the unusual law of nature by the careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease,” remarked William Harvey, an English physician and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, in a letter to Johan Vlakveld, a Dutch physician, in 1657.