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MEN1 clinical background.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2009
Igaz Peter
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Multiple endocrine neoplasia Type 1 (MEN1) is a rare hereditary tumor syndrome predisposing to tumor development in several endocrine organs. Its major manifestations include hyperparathyroidism, tumors of endocrine pancreas and pituitary. Beside these three, several other endocrine (adrenocortical, foregut carcinoid) and nonendocrine (lipoma, angiofibroma, collagenoma, ependymoma, meningioma) tumors have been...
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