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PD-1 inhibition in congenital pigment synthesizing metastatic melanoma.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Jan 2018
Weyand Angela C, Mody Rajen J, Rabah Raja M, Opipari Valerie P
Abstract excerpt
A newborn female child was born with a congenital pigment synthesizing melanoma of the scalp. Further workup revealed metastatic disease within the liver, lungs, and left tibia. Whole exome sequencing was performed on multiple samples that revealed one somatic mutation, lysine methyltransferase 2C (KMT2C), at low allelic frequency but no v-Raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B (BRAF), NF-1 mutation....
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