Expanding the clinical spectrum of Frasier syndrome

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 122-127

  Gwin, Katja ^a   Cajaiba, Mariana M ^b   Caminoa Lizarralde, Alejandra ^b   Picazo, Maria L ^b   Nistal, Manuel ^b   Reyes Múgica, Miguel ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis; Frasier syndrome; Gonadoblastoma; Nephrotic syndrome; Pseudohermaphroditism; WT 1 gene

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DACTINOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENYS DRASH SYNDROME; DYSGERMINOMA; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FRASIER SYNDROME; GONADOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; TISSUE SECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; METASTASIS; MUTATION; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADOLESCENT; AMENORRHEA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DENYS-DRASH SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSGERMINOMA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRASIER SYNDROME; GENES, WILMS TUMOR; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; GONADOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MUTATION; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINURIA;

EID: 44949117712     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/07-01-0209.1     Document Type: Article

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