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Morphologic and Molecular Characteristics of Uterine Leiomyomas in Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cancer (HLRCC) Syndrome
4 Dec 2012
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC) is a hereditary cancer syndrome in which affected individuals are predisposed to the development of multiple leiomyomas of the skin and uterus and aggressive forms of kidney cancer. Affected individuals harbor a germline heterozygous loss-of-function mutation of the fumarate hydratase (FH) gene. Uterine leiomyomas are present in up to 77% of women with this...
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