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A clinical scoring system to identify patients with sebaceous neoplasms at risk for the Muir-Torre variant of Lynch syndrome.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Sept 2014
Roberts Maegan E, Riegert-Johnson Douglas L, Thomas Brittany C, Rumilla Kandelaria M, Thomas Colleen S, Heckman Michael G, Purcell Jennifer U, Hanson Nancy B, Leppig Kathleen A, Lim Justin, Cappel Mark A
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: The Muir-Torre syndrome variant of Lynch syndrome is characterized by the presence of sebaceous neoplasms (adenoma, epithelioma/sebaceoma, carcinoma) and Lynch syndrome-associated cancers (colon, endometrial, and others). Several clinical scoring systems have been developed to identify patients with colon cancer at high risk of Lynch syndrome. However, no such system has been described for patients...
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