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[Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndroms. Type 1].
Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) - 1 Jan 2004
Juodele Linas, Juozaityte Elona, Zindzius Algimantas, Pundzius Juozas
Abstract excerpt
Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) type 1 syndrome or Wermer syndrome is a classical malignant neoplasia syndrome, inherited in the autosomal dominant pattern, when hyperplastic and/or neoplastic injury develops synchronously or metachronously in the cells of the parathyroid gland, pancreas islets, hypophysis, and rarer in other neuroendocrine organs. The syndrome develops when germinative MEN 1--neoplasia...
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