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Clinical benefit and radiological response with BRAF inhibitor in a patient with recurrent ameloblastoma harboring V600E mutation.
BMC cancer - 12 Sept 2018
Fernandes Gustavo S, Girardi Daniel M, Bernardes João Paulo G, Fonseca Felipe P, Fregnani Eduardo R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Ameloblastoma is a slow-growing neoplasm of the jaw, for which the standard treatment is surgical removal of the lesion with high recurrence rates and elevated morbidity. Systemic therapy is not established in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with an ameloblastoma of the left mandible who had been subjected to several surgical procedures over twenty...
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