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Basal cell carcinomas: association of allelic variants with a high-risk subgroup of patients with the multiple presentation phenotype.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Apr 2001
Ramachandran S, Fryer A A, Smith A G, Lear J T, Bowers B, Hartland A J, Whiteside J R, Jones P W, Strange R C
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have shown that patients who present at first or a later presentation with a cluster of new basal cell carcinoma (BCC) comprise a subgroup, termed multiple presentation phenotype (MPP), that is at increased risk of developing further lesions. In this study, we examined the hypothesis that patients who develop multiple clusters are a high-risk subgroup. We found, in a total group of 926 BCC...
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