A CASE OF DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA WITH PRIMARY AMENORRHEA AND ADENOCARCINOMA OF STOMACH

Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a rare disease characterized by hyperpigmentation, nail dystrophy and mucous membrane abnormality. Commonly occurring in males, the patients die young usually due to bone marrow suppression. Malignancies of various descriptions have been reported in this disease, the c...

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Autores principales: Chakrabarti, Nandini, Sarma, Nilendu, Chattopadhyay, Chandan, Chowdhuri, Atanu Roy, Das, Chanchal, Pal, Salil K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22121290
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.87167
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author Chakrabarti, Nandini
Sarma, Nilendu
Chattopadhyay, Chandan
Chowdhuri, Atanu Roy
Das, Chanchal
Pal, Salil K
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Sarma, Nilendu
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Chowdhuri, Atanu Roy
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description Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a rare disease characterized by hyperpigmentation, nail dystrophy and mucous membrane abnormality. Commonly occurring in males, the patients die young usually due to bone marrow suppression. Malignancies of various descriptions have been reported in this disease, the commonest being solid tumors of head/neck (squamous cell carcinoma). We report the case of a female patient with DC, who presented to us with severe wasting and primary amenorrhea and died of carcinoma stomach in our hospital 3 weeks later.
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spelling pubmed-32212352011-11-25 A CASE OF DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA WITH PRIMARY AMENORRHEA AND ADENOCARCINOMA OF STOMACH Chakrabarti, Nandini Sarma, Nilendu Chattopadhyay, Chandan Chowdhuri, Atanu Roy Das, Chanchal Pal, Salil K Indian J Dermatol Case Report Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a rare disease characterized by hyperpigmentation, nail dystrophy and mucous membrane abnormality. Commonly occurring in males, the patients die young usually due to bone marrow suppression. Malignancies of various descriptions have been reported in this disease, the commonest being solid tumors of head/neck (squamous cell carcinoma). We report the case of a female patient with DC, who presented to us with severe wasting and primary amenorrhea and died of carcinoma stomach in our hospital 3 weeks later. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3221235/ /pubmed/22121290 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.87167 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Chakrabarti, Nandini
Sarma, Nilendu
Chattopadhyay, Chandan
Chowdhuri, Atanu Roy
Das, Chanchal
Pal, Salil K
A CASE OF DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA WITH PRIMARY AMENORRHEA AND ADENOCARCINOMA OF STOMACH
title A CASE OF DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA WITH PRIMARY AMENORRHEA AND ADENOCARCINOMA OF STOMACH
title_full A CASE OF DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA WITH PRIMARY AMENORRHEA AND ADENOCARCINOMA OF STOMACH
title_fullStr A CASE OF DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA WITH PRIMARY AMENORRHEA AND ADENOCARCINOMA OF STOMACH
title_full_unstemmed A CASE OF DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA WITH PRIMARY AMENORRHEA AND ADENOCARCINOMA OF STOMACH
title_short A CASE OF DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA WITH PRIMARY AMENORRHEA AND ADENOCARCINOMA OF STOMACH
title_sort case of dyskeratosis congenita with primary amenorrhea and adenocarcinoma of stomach
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22121290
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.87167
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