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Treatment of minute medullary thyroid carcinoma in multiple endocrine neoplasia 2A families first diagnosed by DNA analysis of RET proto-oncogene mutations: a case report.
Japanese journal of clinical oncology - 1 Feb 1997
Yamashita T, Lihara M, Okamoto J, Kanbe M, Ito Y, Kawakami M, Egawa S, Yamaguchi K, Obara T
Abstract excerpt
Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) 2A is an inherited disease characterized by the development of medullary thyroid carcinoma, pheochromocytoma and hyperparathyroidism. It has recently been shown to be associated with germ-line mutations in the RET proto-oncogene. We describe a 21-year-old man from a MEN 2A family who was found by DNA analysis to be a gene carrier of MEN 2A and then was diagnosed, using a...
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