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Juvenile colon cancer diagnosed by onset of intussusception: a case report suggestive of Lynch syndrome treated with laparoscopic colectomy
2023-03-31
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<h4>Background: </h4> One characteristic of Lynch syndrome, which is caused by germline mutations in a group of genes encoding mismatch repair proteins, is the early onset of colorectal cancer. Here, we report a rare case of juvenile colon cancer, diagnosed based on the onset of intussusception with high microsatellite instability (MSI) and the absence of BRAF mutations, which was suggestive of Lynch syndrome. Ca...
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- f663cfc0-42bb-5976-83fd-244a38da69bf
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2725014/v1
