Metachronous ovarian endometrioid carcinomas in a patient with a PTEN variant: case report of incide...
Metachronous ovarian endometrioid carcinomas in a patient with a PTEN variant: case report of incidentally detected Cowden syndrome
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England: BioMed Central Ltd
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Somatic PTEN mutation occurs in a proportion of ovarian endometrioid carcinomas. However, these cancers have seldom been reported in diseases associated with germline PTEN variants, such as Cowden syndrome (CS).
The present case was a 39-year-old woman with a left ovarian carcinoma who demonstrated a germline splice variant of PTEN (c.1026 + 1G...
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Metachronous ovarian endometrioid carcinomas in a patient with a PTEN variant: case report of incidentally detected Cowden syndrome
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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_1493aed473734f6bb7b78b2e91175d89
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_1493aed473734f6bb7b78b2e91175d89
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1471-2407
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1471-2407
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10.1186/s12885-019-6272-2
