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Osteosarcoma in a Marfan patient with a novel premature termination codon in the FBN1 gene.
Connective tissue research - 1 Apr 2011
Roopnariane Adriana, Freed Robert J, Price Shawn, Fox Edward J, Ritty Timothy M
Abstract excerpt
Osteosarcoma is a malignant neoplasm of mesenchymal origin that is presumed to arise from osteoblasts. Considered a rare tumor, approximately 1000 cases of osteosarcoma are diagnosed in the United States each year, and osteosarcoma of the foot is rarer still. Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a rare genet...
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