Metachronous ovarian endometrioid carcinomas in a patient with a PTEN variant: case report of incidentally detected Cowden syndrome

BACKGROUND: Somatic PTEN mutation occurs in a proportion of ovarian endometrioid carcinomas. However, these cancers have seldom been reported in diseases associated with germline PTEN variants, such as Cowden syndrome (CS). CASE PRESENTATION: The present case was a 39-year-old woman with a left ovar...

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Pubblicato in:BMC Cancer
Autori principali: Matsubayashi, Hiroyuki, Higashigawa, Satomi, Kiyozumi, Yoshimi, Horiuchi, Yasue, Hirashima, Yasuyuki, Kado, Nobuhiro, Abe, Masato, Ohishi, Takuma, Ohnami, Sumiko, Urakami, Kenichi, Yamaguchi, Ken
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2019
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6819610/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31664961
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-6272-2
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