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Cerebral primitive neuroectodermal tumor in an adult with a heterozygous MSH2 mutation.
Nature reviews. Clinical oncology - 1 May 2009
Jeans Alexander F, Frayling Ian, Jasani Bharat, Side Lucy, Blesing Claire, Ansorge Olaf
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BACKGROUND: A 37-year-old woman presented with a supratentorial cerebral mass, which was diagnosed histologically as a primitive neuroectodermal tumor. She had been treated for rectal adenocarcinoma 7 years previously. A family history revealed a young-onset colorectal carcinoma in the patient's father. INVESTIGATIONS: Immunohistochemical analysis for DNA mismatch repair proteins, germline mutation analysis of...
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