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Absence of fumarate hydratase mutation in a family with cutaneous leiomyosarcoma and renal cancer.
International journal of dermatology - 1 Nov 2008
Badeloe Sadhanna, van Geest Adrienne J, van Marion Ariënne M W, Frank Jorge
Abstract excerpt
A 41-year-old man was diagnosed with a cutaneous leiomyosarcoma on the left shoulder. Family history revealed that his brother had died of a metastatic kidney tumor at young age. Although apparently rare, the familial occurrence of cutaneous leiomyosarcoma with renal cancer has been described in the context of hereditary cutaneous leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC). This rare genetic syndrome is caused...
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