Case 4. Fibrocystic breast disease in a 16-year-old female with PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 525-527

  Patterson, Annette R ^a   Leitch, A Marilyn ^a   Weatherall, Paul ^a   Zhou, Xiao Ping ^a   Eng, Charis ^a   Tomlinson, Gail E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PTEN PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; BREAST HAMARTOMA; CANCER RISK; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIPOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTEN HAMARTOMA TUMOR SYNDROME; BREAST; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; GENETICS; HAMARTOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; MUTATION; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; BREAST; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; GENE DELETION; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; SYNDROME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 33644845600     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.01.0447     Document Type: Article

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