Article
Sipple syndrome with lichen amyloidosis as a paracrinopathy: pleiotropy, heterogeneity, or a contiguous gene?
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology - 1 Oct 1991
Kousseff B G, Espinoza C, Zamore G A
Abstract excerpt
A five-generation white family with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A had six affected members. Two, a mother and her daughter, had interscapular cutaneous pruritic lesions resembling macular/lichen amyloidosis. In the daughter, light microscopy showed homogeneous aggregates in the papillary d...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adrenal Gland Neoplasms
- Adult
- Amyloidosis
- Brain Neoplasms
- Carcinoma
- Child
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Pheochromocytoma
- Pinealoma
- Skin Diseases