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DICER1 pleuropulmonary blastoma familial tumour predisposition syndrome: What the paediatric urologist needs to know.
Journal of pediatric urology - 1 Feb 2016
Faure Alice, Atkinson John, Bouty Aurore, O'Brien Mike, Levard Guillaume, Hutson John, Heloury Yves
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INTRODUCTION: Germline-inactivating DICER1 mutations are responsible of a familial tumour susceptibility syndrome with an increased risk of tumours, mainly pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB). DICER1 mutations also cause a range of other tumours, some of them in urogenital organs (cystic nephroma [CN], ovarian sex cord-stromal tumours, bladder and cervix embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma [ERMS]). OBJECTIVE: The aim was to...
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