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A Patient With Desmoid Tumors and Familial FAP Having Frame Shift Mutation of the APC Gene.
Acta medica Iranica - 1 Feb 2017
Sadighi Sanambar, Ghaffari-Moghaddam Mahsa, Saffari Mojtaba, Mohagheghi Mohammad Ali, Shirkoohi Reza
Abstract excerpt
Desmoids tumors, characterized by monoclonal proliferation of myofibroblasts, could occur in 5-10% of patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) as an extra-colonic manifestation of the disease. FAP can develop when there is a germ-line mutation in the adenomatous polyposis coli gene. Although mild or attenuated FAP may follow mutations in 5΄ extreme of the gene, it is more likely that 3΄ extreme...
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