Multiple colon carcinomas in a patient with Cowden syndrome

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 643-647

  Bosserhoff, Anja Katrin ^a   Grussendorf Conen, Elke Ingrid ^b   Rübben, Albert ^b   Rudnik Schöneborn, Sabine ^b   Zerres, Klaus ^b   Buettner, Reinhard ^c   Merkelbach Bruse, Sabine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Cowden syndrome; Germline mutation; PTEN

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COLON TUMOR; CONGENITAL TUMOR; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PEDIGREE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOP CODON; THYROID TUMOR; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CODON, NONSENSE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMARTOMA SYNDROME, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548513847     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.18.4.643     Document Type: Article

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