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Preemptive total gastrectomy for hereditary gastric cancer.
Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract - 1 Mar 2007
Medina-Franco Heriberto, Barreto-Zuñiga Rafael, García-Alvarez Miriam N
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary gastric cancer is a recently described clinical syndrome, associated with truncating mutation of the E-cadherin gene, named CDH1. It is characterized by autosomal dominant transmission, presentation at an early age, and with diffuse type of gastric adenocarcinoma. Clinical management o...
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