Familial adenomatous polyposis associated with multiple adrenal adenomas in a patient with a rare 3' APC mutation

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-67

  Kartheuser, Alex ^a   Walon, Corinne ^a   West, Sarah ^b   Breukel, Cor ^c   Detry, Roger ^a   Gribomont, Anne Catherine ^d   Hamzehloei, Tayebeh ^d   Hoang, Pierre ^b   Maiter, Dominique ^d   Pringot, Jacques ^d   Rahier, Jacques ^d   Khan, P Meera ^c   Curtis, Ann ^b   Burn, John ^b   Fodde, Riccardo ^c   Verellen Dumoulin, Christine ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Univ́ Catholique de Louvain ^*

Author keywords

Adrenal adenoma; APC mutation; Familial adenomatous polyposis

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYMPHOBLAST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH TUMOR; STOP CODON;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADRENOCORTICAL ADENOMA; GENES, APC; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032933125     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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