Cancer-associated genodermatoses: A personal history

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 653-666

  Burgdorf, Walter H C ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal cell nevus syndrome; Birt Hogg Dub syndrome; Cancer associated genodermatoses; Carney complex; Cowden syndrome; Muir Torre syndrome

Indexed keywords

ESTRONE; MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN PMS2; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN PATCHED; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BASAL CELL NEVUS SYNDROME; BIRT HOGG DUBE SYNDROME; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CARNEY COMPLEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COWDEN SYNDROME; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FAMILY HISTORY; GARDNER SYNDROME; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENODERMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LHERMITTE DUCLOS DISEASE; LUNG CYST; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUIR TORRE SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYB; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRICHILEMMOMA; WART VIRUS;

BASAL CELL NEVUS SYNDROME; HAMARTOMA SYNDROME, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, GENETIC;

EID: 33746586248     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2006.00463.x     Document Type: Review

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