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Stromal, fibrous, and fatty gastrointestinal tumors in a patient with a PDGFRA gene mutation.
The American journal of surgical pathology - 1 Sept 2008
Carney J Aidan, Stratakis Constantine A
Abstract excerpt
We report the case of a woman with 3 different types of gastrointestinal tumors--stromal, fibrous, and fatty--and a germline defect of the platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (PDGFRA) gene (V561D). The patient, now 52 years old, presented in 1977 at age 22 years with a gastric tumor and a duodenal lipoma. Subsequently, she developed obstructing small intestinal fibrous tumors that required 3...
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