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Hepatoblastoma and APC gene mutation in familial adenomatous polyposis.
1 Dec 1996
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hepatoblastoma is a rare, rapidly progressive, usually fatal childhood malignancy, which if confined to the liver can be cured by radical surgical resection. An association between hepatoblastoma and familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), which is due to germline mutation of the APC (adenomatous polyposis coli) gene, has been confirmed, but correlation with site of APC mutation has not been studied....
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