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A case of multiple familial trichoepitheliomas responding to treatment with the Hedgehog signaling pathway inhibitor vismodegib.
Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology - 1 Aug 2018
Baur Vera, Papadopoulos Thomas, Kazakov Dmitry V, Agaimy Abbas, Hartmann Arndt, Isbary Georg, Wirtz Ralph M, Schultz Erwin S
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Multiple familial trichoepitheliomas (MFT) is an autosomal dominantly inherited disease characterized by multiple skin appendage tumors. We describe a patient showing a continuous spectrum of follicular differentiated neoplasms including classical trichoepitheliomas but also infiltrative growing and finally metastasizing malignant follicular differentiated tumors. Germline mutation analysis revealed a nonsense...
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