Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, and management.

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Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a slowly progressive, low-grade, metastasising neoplasm of women, characterised by infiltration of the lung parenchyma with abnormal smooth muscle-like cells, resulting in cystic lung destruction. The invading cell in LAM arises from an unknown source and harbours mutations in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) genes that result in constitutive activation of the mechanistic target...

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