Malignant meningioma in Gorlin's syndrome: cytogenetic and p53 gene analysis. Case report.

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Gorlin's syndrome, also known as multiple basal cell carcinoma syndrome, is a familial tumor condition with autosomal-dominant inheritance. Patients develop multiple basal cell carcinomas beginning in childhood. They also have a typical dysmorphic facies, skeletal malformations, and a particular type of epithelial cyst of the jaws. Recent evidence localizes a Gorlin's syndrome locus on chromosome 9 at band q31....

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