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Elucidating the pathogenesis of synchronous and metachronous tumors in a woman with endometrioid carcinomas using a whole-exome sequencing approach.
Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies - 1 Nov 2017
Wu Ren-Chin, Veras Ema, Lin Jeffrey, Gerry Emily, Bahadirli-Talbott Asli, Baras Alexander, Ayhan Ayse, Shih Ie-Ming, Wang Tian-Li
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Synchronous endometrial and ovarian (SEO) carcinomas involve endometrioid neoplasms in both the ovary and uterus at the time of diagnosis. Patients were traditionally classified as having independent primary SEO lesions or as having metastatic endometrioid carcinoma. Recent studies have supported that SEO tumors result from the dissemination of cells from one organ site to another. However, whether this can be...
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