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Congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE) in familial colorectal cancer.
Familial cancer - 1 Jan 2006
Chen Celia S, Phillips Kerry D, Grist Scott, Bennet Graeme, Craig Jamie E, Muecke James S, Suthers Graeme K
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: Congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE) is a pigmented fundus lesion associated with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). CHRPE prevalence has been reported to be increased in subjects with familial or sporadic non-polyposis colorectal cancer (CRC), suggesting that some individuals with non-polyposis CRC have an attenuated form of FAP. Other studies have not confirmed...
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