Cowden Syndrome Presenting as Breast Cancer: Imaging and Clinical Features

Cowden syndrome is an uncommon, autosomal dominant disease which is characterized by multiple hamartomas of the skin, mucous membrane, brain, breast, thyroid, and gastrointestinal tract. The diagnosis of Cowden syndrome implicates an increased risk of developing breast cancer. We report a case of a...

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Autores principales: Seo, Mirinae, Cho, Nariya, Ahn, Hye Shin, Moon, Hyeong-Gon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Radiology 2014
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Breast Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246819
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2014.15.5.586
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author Seo, Mirinae
Cho, Nariya
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Moon, Hyeong-Gon
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description Cowden syndrome is an uncommon, autosomal dominant disease which is characterized by multiple hamartomas of the skin, mucous membrane, brain, breast, thyroid, and gastrointestinal tract. The diagnosis of Cowden syndrome implicates an increased risk of developing breast cancer. We report a case of a 22-year-old woman with Cowden syndrome that presented as breast cancer with concomitant bilateral exuberant benign masses in both breasts.
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spelling pubmed-41701592014-09-22 Cowden Syndrome Presenting as Breast Cancer: Imaging and Clinical Features Seo, Mirinae Cho, Nariya Ahn, Hye Shin Moon, Hyeong-Gon Korean J Radiol Breast Imaging Cowden syndrome is an uncommon, autosomal dominant disease which is characterized by multiple hamartomas of the skin, mucous membrane, brain, breast, thyroid, and gastrointestinal tract. The diagnosis of Cowden syndrome implicates an increased risk of developing breast cancer. We report a case of a 22-year-old woman with Cowden syndrome that presented as breast cancer with concomitant bilateral exuberant benign masses in both breasts. The Korean Society of Radiology 2014 2014-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4170159/ /pubmed/25246819 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2014.15.5.586 Text en Copyright © 2014 The Korean Society of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cowden Syndrome Presenting as Breast Cancer: Imaging and Clinical Features
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title_full Cowden Syndrome Presenting as Breast Cancer: Imaging and Clinical Features
title_fullStr Cowden Syndrome Presenting as Breast Cancer: Imaging and Clinical Features
title_full_unstemmed Cowden Syndrome Presenting as Breast Cancer: Imaging and Clinical Features
title_short Cowden Syndrome Presenting as Breast Cancer: Imaging and Clinical Features
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170159/
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