Thyroid cancer in Gardner’s syndrome: Case report and review of literature

Gardner’s syndrome is a variant of familial adenomatous polyposis. A multitude of extra-colonic manifestations including various endocrine tumors have been associated with this syndrome, the commonest of which is thyroid cancer. Majority of the patients with thyroid cancer and Gardner’s syndrome are...

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Autores principales: Punatar, Sachin B, Noronha, Vanita, Joshi, Amit, Prabhash, Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455508
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.96510
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author Punatar, Sachin B
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description Gardner’s syndrome is a variant of familial adenomatous polyposis. A multitude of extra-colonic manifestations including various endocrine tumors have been associated with this syndrome, the commonest of which is thyroid cancer. Majority of the patients with thyroid cancer and Gardner’s syndrome are females. Here we describe a male patient with Gardner’s syndrome who subsequently developed thyroid cancer.
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spelling pubmed-38766022014-01-16 Thyroid cancer in Gardner’s syndrome: Case report and review of literature Punatar, Sachin B Noronha, Vanita Joshi, Amit Prabhash, Kumar South Asian J Cancer Case Report Gardner’s syndrome is a variant of familial adenomatous polyposis. A multitude of extra-colonic manifestations including various endocrine tumors have been associated with this syndrome, the commonest of which is thyroid cancer. Majority of the patients with thyroid cancer and Gardner’s syndrome are females. Here we describe a male patient with Gardner’s syndrome who subsequently developed thyroid cancer. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3876602/ /pubmed/24455508 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.96510 Text en Copyright: © South Asian Journal of Cancer 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.
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Punatar, Sachin B
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title Thyroid cancer in Gardner’s syndrome: Case report and review of literature
title_full Thyroid cancer in Gardner’s syndrome: Case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Thyroid cancer in Gardner’s syndrome: Case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Thyroid cancer in Gardner’s syndrome: Case report and review of literature
title_short Thyroid cancer in Gardner’s syndrome: Case report and review of literature
title_sort thyroid cancer in gardner’s syndrome: case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24455508
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.96510
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