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Delayed diagnosis and complications of Fanconi anaemia at advanced age – a paradigm
7 Feb 2006
Abstract excerpt
Fanconi anaemia (FA) is a rare recessive DNA repair disorder clinically characterised by congenital malformations, progressive bone marrow failure and a high propensity for developing malignancies at an early age, predominantly acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and squamous cell carcinoma. It is conceivable that a number of patients with hypomorphic mutations are not diagnosed as FA until severe complications in the...
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