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Transition from cylindroma to spiradenoma in CYLD-defective tumours is associated with reduced DKK2 expression.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Jul 2011
Rajan Neil, Burn John, Langtry James, Sieber-Blum Maya, Lord Christopher J, Ashworth Alan
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Patients carrying heterozygous germline truncating mutations in the CYLD gene develop multiple primary hair follicle-related tumours. A highly patterned tumour, termed cylindroma, and a highly disorganized tumour, termed spiradenoma, may both develop in the same patient. Furthermore, histological features of both tumour types have been described within the same tumour specimen. We used three-dimensional...
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