Coexistence of thyroid cancer and phaeochromocytoma was first reported by Eisenberg and Wallerstein in 1932 ; since then some 20 cases have been described (Williams, 1965). In most of these cases the thyroid cancer was of the rare medullary type with amyloid in the stroma (Hazard, Hawk, and Crile, 1959). The familial occurrence of thyroid cancer and phaeo chromocytoma has also recently been reported (Nourok, 1964 ; Schimke and Hartmann, 1965 ; Ljungberg, 1966). We have found this combination in a number of cases and have had the opportunity of examining a family several members of which had both types of tumour associated with multiple cutaneous tumours resembling fibromas ; one of them also had caf?-au lait-like skin spots. The results of xhis investigation are presented below.
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Ljungberg et al. (1967) studied this question.