A Woman with a Family History of Colonic Polyps and Cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 1750-1760

  Chung, Daniel C ^a   Mino, Mari ^a   Shannon, Kristen M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; CELECOXIB; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SULINDAC;

ADULT; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FAMILIAL COLON POLYPOSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GERM LINE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VILLOUS ADENOMA; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT TUMOR; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLON TUMOR; DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VATER PAPILLA;

ADENOMA, VILLOUS; ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; AMPULLA OF VATER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, APC; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0142213727     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030023     Document Type: Review

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