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Erdheim-Chester Disease in a 48-Year Old Woman with “An Unknown Tumour of the Heart:” An Autopsy Report.
2020-10-15
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a rare non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis. ECD is considered a potentially severe multi-systemic disease with life-threatening manifestations due to the compression of normal structures. Recently, mutation of the proto-oncogene BRAF (BRAFV600E) has been found in 100% of cases. The common sites of involvement are the skeleton, central nervous system, cardi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2efa2bc2-1a8b-57e1-8ee8-551879e28a50
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-91171/v1
