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Holly Lindsay1, Rima F Jubran, Larry Wang, Benjamin R Kipp, William A May.
Abstract
We describe a 12-year-old girl, simultaneously presenting with colonic adenocarcinoma and medulloblastoma from bialleic deletions in the mismatch repair gene PMS2. Her distinctive physical and clinical findings are characteristic of constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome. Earlier recognition of such findings may permit better screening and more effective treatment.Entities:
Keywords: CMMR-D; Constitutional mismatch repair-deficiency; MRI; Magnetic resonance imaging
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23582141 PMCID: PMC3862975 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.03.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pediatr ISSN: 0022-3476 Impact factor: 4.406