Differences between Patients with Sporadic and Familial Pheochromocytoma-Is It Possible to Avoid Genetic Testing in Certain Patients?

Patients with familial PHEO diagnosed by screening differ from sporadic cases in terms of age, clinical features, and size. However, patients with sporadic PHEO only differ from index cases by a lower presence of bilaterality, which reaffirms the importance of genetic screening of patients with PHEO and their relatives.