Relationship of familial prominent corneal nerves and lesions of the tongue resembling neuromas to multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B.

doi:10.1016/s0002-9394(14)72659-5

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Relationship of familial prominent corneal nerves and lesions of the tongue resembling neuromas to multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B.

American journal of ophthalmology - 1 Oct 1995

Dennehy P J, Feldman G L, Kambouris M, O'Malley E R, Sanders C Y, Jackson C E

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PURPOSE: We studied a two-generation family with an inherited syndrome of prominent corneal nerves and lesions of the tongue resembling neuromas without the characteristic neoplasms of the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B syndrome. Several different point mutations in the RET proto-oncogene on chromosome 10 have been associated with the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 syndromes. Molecular genetic studies...

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