Multifocal anaplastic astrocytoma in a patient with hereditary colorectal cancer, transcobalamin II deficiency, agenesis of the corpus callosum, mental retardation, and inherited PMS2 mutation

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-97

  Gururangan, Sridharan ^a   Frankel, Wendy ^c   Broaddus, Russell ^b   Clendenning, Mark ^c   Senter, Leigha ^c   McDonald, Marie ^a   Eastwood, James ^a   Reardon, David ^a   Vredenburgh, James ^a   Quinn, Jennifer ^a   Friedman, Henry S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lynch syndrome; Malignant glioma; PMS2

Indexed keywords

TRANSCOBALAMIN II;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CASE REPORT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NONSENSE MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PMS2 GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCOBALAMINS;

EID: 39149102464     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/15228517-2007-037     Document Type: Article

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