Metachronous ovarian endometrioid carcinomas in a patient with a PTEN variant: case report of incidentally detected Cowden syndrome

Metachronous ovarian endometrioid carcinomas in a patient with a PTEN variant: case report of incidentally detected Cowden syndrome

Abstract Background 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). Case presentation The present case was a 39-year-old woman with a le...

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Main Authors: Hiroyuki Matsubayashi, Satomi Higashigawa, Yoshimi Kiyozumi, Yasue Horiuchi, Yasuyuki Hirashima, Nobuhiro Kado, Masato Abe, Takuma Ohishi, Sumiko Ohnami, Kenichi Urakami, Ken Yamaguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:BMC Cancer
Subjects:
Ovarian
Endometrioid carcinoma
PTEN
Germline variant
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-019-6272-2

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