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Lobular endocervical glandular hyperplasia is a neoplastic entity with frequent activating GNAS mutations.
The American journal of surgical pathology - 1 Mar 2014
Matsubara Akiko, Sekine Shigeki, Ogawa Reiko, Yoshida Masayuki, Kasamatsu Takahiro, Tsuda Hitoshi, Kanai Yae
Abstract excerpt
To clarify the significance of GNAS mutations in cervical tumorigenesis, we performed mutational analyses in a total of 154 lesions and in 22 normal tissues of the uterine cervix. Activating GNAS mutations were found in 8 of the 19 lobular endocervical glandular hyperplasias (LEGH; 42%) and 4 of the 79 endocervical-type mucinous adenocarcinomas (5%) but were never seen in the normal endocervical tissue, minimal...
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