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Mutations in the CYLD gene in Brooke-Spiegler syndrome, familial cylindromatosis, and multiple familial trichoepithelioma: lack of genotype-phenotype correlation.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 May 2005
Bowen Sarah, Gill Melissa, Lee David A, Fisher Galen, Geronemus Roy G, Vazquez Marialuisa Espinel, Celebi Julide Tok
Abstract excerpt
Brooke-Spiegler syndrome (BSS), familial cylindromatosis (FC), and multiple familial trichoepithelioma (MFT), originally described as distinct entities, share overlapping clinical findings. Patients with BSS are predisposed to multiple skin appendage tumors such as cylindroma, trichoepithelioma, and spiradenoma. FC, however, is characterized by cylindromas and MFT by trichoepitheliomas as the only tumor type....
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