A novel APC gene mutation associated with a severe phenotype in a patient with Turcot syndrome.

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Turcot syndrome is a rare inherited condition of colonic polyposis associated with central nervous system tumors. We report a patient with a novel adenomatous polyposis coli gene mutation leading to a severe phenotype including medulloblastoma, low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma following cranial radiation, pilomatrixomas, colonic adenomas, and abdominal desmoid tumor following colectomy, all of which were...

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