Unusual case of Cowden-like syndrome, neck paraganglioma, and pituitary adenoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Efstathiadou, Zoe A ^a   Sapranidis, Michail ^a   Anagnostis, Panagiotis ^a   Kita, Marina D ^a  

^a Aristotle University and Hippokration General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cowden like syndrome; neck paraganglioma; papillary thyroid cancer; pituitary adenoma; prolactinoma

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; QUINAGOLIDE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COWDEN SYNDROME; EXON; FEMALE; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTRON; MACROCEPHALY; PAPULE; PARAGANGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA;

COWDEN-LIKE SYNDROME; NECK PARAGANGLIOMA; PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER; PITUITARY ADENOMA; PROLACTINOMA;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HAMARTOMA SYNDROME, MULTIPLE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PARAGANGLIOMA; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RARE DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84890431029     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23420     Document Type: Article

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