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Sebaceous neoplasms and the immunoprofile of mismatch-repair proteins as a screening target for syndromic cases.
Pathology, research and practice - 1 Jan 2015
Boennelycke Marie, Thomsen Birthe M, Holck Susanne
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INTRODUCTION: Muir-Torre syndrome (MTS), a subset of Lynch syndrome, is characterized by concurrent or sequential development of sebaceous neoplasms, and internal malignancies, specifically colorectal carcinoma (CRC), and can be related to mismatch-repair (MMR)-protein deficiency. In CRC context, p16-negativity in MLH1-deficient cases may denote methylation rather than mutation. The prime aim of this study was to...
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