Multiple endocrine neoplasia IIA found at autopsy.

A case is presented of a 32-year-old black female who died from adult respiratory distress syndrome with disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. At autopsy she was found to have typical multiple endocrine neoplasia IIA, a combination of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid, bilateral adrenal pheochromocytoma and nodular hyperplasia of the parathyroid.