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Familial multiple cutaneous and uterine leiomyomas associated with papillary renal cell cancer.
Clinical and experimental dermatology - 1 Jan 2005
Chan I, Wong T, Martinez-Mir A, Christiano A M, McGrath J A
Abstract excerpt
Multiple cutaneous and uterine leiomyomas is an autosomal dominant condition that results in benign smooth muscle tumours of the skin and, in females, uterine fibroids. This syndrome overlaps with hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer syndrome in which affected individuals may develop the rare type II papillary renal cell cancer, in addition to skin leiomyomas. Recently, heterozygous mutations in the...
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