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Cell-free DNA from plasma as a promising alternative for detection of gene mutations in patients with Maffucci syndrome.
Hereditas - 18 Jan 2022
Sun Yi, Fan Xindong, Rao Yamin, Wang Zhenfeng, Wang Deming, Yang Xitao, Zheng Lianzhou, Wen Mingzhe, Cai Ren, Su Lixin
Abstract excerpt
Maffucci syndrome (MS, OMIM 166000) is an extremely unusual, nonhereditary, multisystemic disorder that is characterized with multiple enchondromas and vascular lesions, most of which are spindle cell hemangiomas. Complications of MS, such as bone deformities and dysfunction caused by enchondromas, usually increase during childhood and adolescence. Malignant transformation of enchondromas and other malignancies...
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