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Gacula SIG, Kunte SC, Unterrainer LM, Rübenthaler J, Kunz WG, Cyran C, Holzgreve A. Divergent growth on [18F]FDG PET/CT in a case of co-existing pulmonary metastatic leiomyosarcoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma. Nuklearmedizin 2024. [PMID: 38467142 DOI: 10.1055/a-2273-2447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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- Sean Ira G Gacula
- Department of Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Radiology, National Kidney and Transplant Institute, Manila, Philippines
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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Capitanio JF, Mortini P. Brain and/or Spinal Cord Tumors Accompanied with Other Diseases or Syndromes. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2023; 1405:645-672. [PMID: 37452957 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23705-8_25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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Several medical conditions that interest both the brain and the spinal cord have been described throughout the history of medicine. Formerly grouped under the term Phacomatosis because lesions of the eye were frequently encountered or genodermatosis when typical skin lesions were present, these terms have been progressively discarded. Although originally reported centuries ago, they still represent a challenge for their complexity of cure. Nowadays, with the introduction of advanced genetics and the consequent opportunity of whole-genome sequencing, new single cancer susceptibility genes have been identified or better characterized; although there is evidence that the predisposition to a few specific tumor syndromes should be accounted to a group of mutations in different genes while certain syndromes appeared to be manifestations of different mutations in the same gene adding supplementary problems in their characterization and establishing the diagnosis. Noteworthy, many syndromes have been genetically determined and well-characterized, accordingly in the near future, we expect that new targeted therapies will be available for the definitive cure of these syndromes and other gliomas (Pour-Rashidi et al. in World Neurosurgery, 2021). The most common CNS syndromes that will be discussed in this chapter include neurofibromatosis (NF) types 1 and 2, von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease, and tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), as well as syndromes having mostly extra-neural manifestations such as Cowden, Li-Fraumeni, Turcot, and Gorlin syndromes.
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- Jody Filippo Capitanio
- Department of Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
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- Department of Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
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Koufopoulos N, Zacharatou A, Gouloumis AR, Papadimitriou N, Tomos P, Foukas PG, Panayiotides IG. Metastatic Thyroid Osteosarcoma With Concomitant Multifocal Papillary Carcinoma Presenting as a Collision Tumor. Cureus 2021; 13:e15425. [PMID: 34262800 PMCID: PMC8259070 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.15425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Metastatic involvement of the thyroid occurs rarely, by either hematogenous spread or direct extension from adjacent organs. The most frequent metastatic tumors are clear cell, renal cell, lung, breast, and squamous cell carcinoma. The occurrence of osteosarcoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma in the same patient is rare, with only a few reported cases in the literature. On the other hand, only one case of osteosarcoma thyroid metastasis has so far been reported. We herewith present another case with metastatic osteosarcoma and multifocal papillary thyroid carcinoma presenting as a collision tumor and review the relevant literature.
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- Nektarios Koufopoulos
- 2nd Department of Pathology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, GRC
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- 2nd Department of Pathology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, GRC
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- 2nd Department of Pathology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, GRC
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- 2nd Department of Ear, Nose, Throat (ENT), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, GRC
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, GRC
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- 2nd Department of Pathology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, GRC
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- 2nd Department of Pathology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, GRC
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Atkin ND, Raimer HM, Wang YH. Broken by the Cut: A Journey into the Role of Topoisomerase II in DNA Fragility. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:E791. [PMID: 31614754 PMCID: PMC6826763 DOI: 10.3390/genes10100791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2019] [Revised: 10/05/2019] [Accepted: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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DNA topoisomerase II (TOP2) plays a critical role in many processes such as replication and transcription, where it resolves DNA structures and relieves torsional stress. Recent evidence demonstrated the association of TOP2 with topologically associated domains (TAD) boundaries and CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) binding sites. At these sites, TOP2 promotes interactions between enhancers and gene promoters, and relieves torsional stress that accumulates at these physical barriers. Interestingly, in executing its enzymatic function, TOP2 contributes to DNA fragility through re-ligation failure, which results in persistent DNA breaks when unrepaired or illegitimately repaired. Here, we discuss the biological processes for which TOP2 is required and the steps at which it can introduce DNA breaks. We describe the repair processes that follow removal of TOP2 adducts and the resultant broken DNA ends, and present how these processes can contribute to disease-associated mutations. Furthermore, we examine the involvement of TOP2-induced breaks in the formation of oncogenic translocations of leukemia and papillary thyroid cancer, as well as the role of TOP2 and proteins which repair TOP2 adducts in other diseases. The participation of TOP2 in generating persistent DNA breaks and leading to diseases such as cancer, could have an impact on disease treatment and prevention.
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- Naomi D Atkin
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
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Shibuya H, Kato A, Kai N, Fujiwara S, Goto M. A Case of Werner Syndrome with Three Primary Lesions of Malignant Melanoma. J Dermatol 2014; 32:737-44. [PMID: 16361718 DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2005.tb00835.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2004] [Accepted: 04/21/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Three primary lesions of malignant melanoma developed in a 44-year-old Japanese woman with Werner syndrome. One lesion was on the right large pudental lip and the others in distinct locations on her left sole. After the wide local excision of these tumors, the wound of the large pudental lip was sutured, and the defects on the sole were covered with skin grafts. After one course of chemotherapy consisting of dacarbazine, nimustine, vincristine sulfate and local injection of Interferon beta were performed, severe myelosupression occurred and continued for two months. Defective production of WRN protein was confirmed by Western blotting, although the three representative mutations in Japanese patients, mutations 1, 4 and 6, which include over 90% of the Japanese patients, were not detected. We also reviewed 26 cases of malignant melanoma associated with Werner syndrome (WS), including ours.
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- Hiromi Shibuya
- Department of Anatomy, Biology and Medicine (Plastic Surgery, Dermatology) Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan
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The role of fragile sites in sporadic papillary thyroid carcinoma. J Thyroid Res 2012; 2012:927683. [PMID: 22762011 PMCID: PMC3384961 DOI: 10.1155/2012/927683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2012] [Accepted: 04/18/2012] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing, especially papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), making it currently the fastest-growing cancer among women. Reasons for this increase remain unclear, but several risk factors including radiation exposure and improved detection techniques have been suggested. Recently, the induction of chromosomal fragile site breakage was found to result in the formation of RET/PTC1 rearrangements, a common cause of PTC. Chromosomal fragile sites are regions of the genome with a high susceptibility to forming DNA breaks and are often associated with cancer. Exposure to a variety of external agents can induce fragile site breakage, which may account for some of the observed increase in PTC. This paper discusses the role of fragile site breakage in PTC development, external fragile site-inducing agents that may be potential risk factors for PTC, and how these factors are especially targeting women.
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Tsurubuchi T, Yamamoto T, Tsukada Y, Matsuda M, Nakai K, Matsumura A. Meningioma associated with Werner syndrome--case report--. Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo) 2009; 48:470-3. [PMID: 18948683 DOI: 10.2176/nmc.48.470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A 53-year-old man presented with a rare meningioma associated with Werner syndrome. Screening brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with gadolinium had detected multiple homogeneously enhanced tumors in the right convexity and in the anterior and posterior thirds of the falx cerebri after surgery for osteosarcoma in his right leg at age 52 years. Ten months later, the right convexity tumor was removed because follow-up MR imaging detected tumor growth. The histological diagnosis was transitional meningioma. The postoperative clinical course was good and the patient remains healthy. Review of the literature found meningiomas associated with Werner syndrome occur about two times more frequently in men than in women, and typically in the fourth decade. Most meningiomas associated with Werner syndrome are benign, but are sometimes complicated with extracranial tumors such as sarcoma, thyroid carcinoma, and others. Patients with meningioma associated with Werner syndrome should be carefully followed up to detect the occurrence of other extracranial tumors such as sarcoma by brain MR imaging, echography, or body computed tomography.
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- Takao Tsurubuchi
- Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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We report two cases of papillary thyroid carcinoma occurring after the successful treatment of osteosarcoma. One of the patients was administered with several alkylating agents and topoisomerase II inhibitor as part of the primary treatment of osteosarcoma. The onset of thyroid carcinoma occurred after 5 and 12 yr after cessation of the osteosarcoma therapy. All the patients involved in this study are alive and free of their malignancies. There have been eight case reports of these two malignancies occurring in the same patient. Thyroid carcinoma rarely occurs in patients with osteosarcoma; however, vigilant surveillance and long-term follow-up should be emphasized for all survivors.
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- Min Suk Kim
- Department of Pathology, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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Schrader KA, Masciari S, Boyd N, Wiyrick S, Kaurah P, Senz J, Burke W, Lynch HT, Garber JE, Huntsman DG. Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: association with lobular breast cancer. Fam Cancer 2008; 7:73-82. [PMID: 18046629 PMCID: PMC2253650 DOI: 10.1007/s10689-007-9172-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) has been shown to be caused by germline mutations in the gene CDH1 located at 16q22.1, which encodes the cell-cell adhesion molecule, E-cadherin. Not only does loss of expression of E-cadherin account for the morphologic differences between intestinal and diffuse gastric cancer (DGC) variants, but it also appears to lead to distinct cellular features which appear to be common amongst related cancers that have been seen in the syndrome. As in most hereditary cancer syndromes, multiple organ sites may be commonly affected by cancer, in HDGC, lobular carcinoma of the breast (LBC) and possibly other organ sites have been shown to be associated with the familial cancer syndrome. Given the complexity of HDGC, not only with regard to the management of the DGC risk, but also with regard to the risk for other related cancers, such as LBC, a multi-disciplinary approach is needed for the management of individuals with known CDH1 mutations.
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- Kasmintan A. Schrader
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, British Columbia Cancer Agency, 600 W 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Canada V5Z 1L3
- Hereditary Cancer Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC Canada
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA USA
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- Hereditary Cancer Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC Canada
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- Departments of Neurology and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
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- Hereditary Cancer Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, British Columbia Cancer Agency, 600 W 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Canada V5Z 1L3
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- Department of Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, British Columbia Cancer Agency, 600 W 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Canada V5Z 1L3
- Hereditary Cancer Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC Canada
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Single-gene mutations can produce human progeroid syndromes--phenotypes that mimic usual or "normative" aging. These can be divided into two classes--those that have their impacts upon multiple organs and tissues (segmental progeroid syndromes) and those that have their major impacts upon a single organ or tissue (unimodal progeroid syndromes). The prototypic example of the former is the Werner syndrome, a condition caused by mutations of the RecQ family of DNA helicases. Research on the Werner syndrome and a surprising number of other progeroid syndromes support the importance of the maintenance of genomic stability as a partial antidote to aging. The prototypic examples of the latter are Alzheimer type dementias. The three gene products that cause rare autosomal-dominant early-onset varieties of these disorders all participate in the modulation of the beta amyloid precursor protein. They thus support the importance of the maintenance of proper protein processing and folding as a partial antidote to aging.
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- George M Martin
- Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
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Radiotherapy-induced complications in a patient with Werner's syndrome and a sarcoma of the forearm. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PLASTIC SURGERY 2003. [DOI: 10.1007/s00238-003-0463-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Verneris M, McDougall IR, Becton D, Link MP. Thyroid carcinoma after successful treatment of osteosarcoma: a report of three patients. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 2001; 23:312-5. [PMID: 11464990 DOI: 10.1097/00043426-200106000-00016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We report three cases of papillary thyroid carcinoma occurring after successful treatment of osteosarcoma. Only one of the three patients received radiation therapy (to the chest) as part of the primary treatment of osteosarcoma. The onset of thyroid carcinoma occurred between 8 and 16 years from the cessation of osteosarcoma therapy. All patients are alive and disease-free from both malignancies. Whereas the association between osteosarcoma and thyroid carcinoma has not previously been recognized, there have been five case reports of these two entities occurring in the same patient. Three of these cases occurred in patients with Werner syndrome. None of the patients reported here had physical stigmata of Werner syndrome or a family history consistent with a hereditary cancer syndrome. Thyroid carcinoma occurs infrequently in patients with osteosarcoma, but in view of the rarity of these two disorders, this association may represent an inherited predisposition to these malignancies.
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- M Verneris
- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5208, USA
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Werner syndrome (WS), adult progeria, is more common in Japan than elsewhere. It predisposes to osteosarcoma (OS) and five other rare tumors. To determine if and how OS is atypical in this genetic disorder, we studied the characteristics of ten Japanese cases with respect to clinical features, pathology, and radiographs, and compared them with a hospital series of 36 skeletal OS with the same atypical age-range, 35 - 57 years. The anatomic sites were also atypical: seven ankle / foot, two radius and one patella compared with only one at the ankle in the hospital series. The osteoblastic cell-type was about equally frequent in both series, but, among others than the three major subtypes, there was only one in WS as compared with 14 (39%) in the hospital series. The types of mutations were sought in five WS cases with OS. One showed no mutation at any of the ten known loci for Japanese, two were of type 4 / 4 and two of type 6 / 6. The mutations 4 and 6 have been found in 66% of alleles of WS cases in Japan. The increased frequency and unusual age and site distributions of OS in WS may be due to increased susceptibility, related to later-life leg ulcers, and weight-bearing on spindly ankles weakened by severe loss of lower limb subcutaneous tissue.
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- Y Ishikawa
- Department of Pathology, The Cancer Institute, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-8455, Japan.
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Murata K, Hatamochi A, Shinkai H, Ishikawa Y, Kawaguchi N, Goto M. A case of Werner's syndrome associated with osteosarcoma. J Dermatol 1999; 26:682-6. [PMID: 10554436 DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1999.tb02072.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We described a case of Werner's syndrome associated with osteosarcoma. A 37-year-old Japanese man was diagnosed as having Werner's syndrome by the presence of juvenile cataracts, skin sclerosis and hyperpigmentation of the feet, high-pitched voice, characteristic bird-like appearance of the face with beak-shaped nose, thinning of the entire skin and hyperkeratoses on soles, hyperlipemia, hyperuricemia, diabetes melitus, and the mutated responsible gene (WRN). He had a 3-month history of a tumor on his left forearm. Histologically, the tumor included four histological patterns; a malignant fibrous histiocytoma-like, a desmoid-like, a dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans-like, and a chondrosarcoma-like pattern. Tumoral osteoid formation was also found in the tumor. Therefore, the tumor was diagnosed as osteosarcoma.
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- K Murata
- Department of Dermatology, Chiba University School of Medicine, Japan
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Ishikawa Y, Sugano H, Matsumoto T, Furuichi Y, Miller RW, Goto M. Unusual features of thyroid carcinomas in Japanese patients with Werner syndrome and possible genotype–phenotype relations to cell type and race. Cancer 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19990315)85:6<1345::aid-cncr18>3.0.co;2-#] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Department of Pathology, The Cancer Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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- Genetic Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Tokyo Metropolitan Otsuka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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Yamanaka A, Hirai T, Ohtake Y, Kitagawa M. Lung cancer associated with Werner's syndrome: a case report and review of the literature. Jpn J Clin Oncol 1997; 27:415-8. [PMID: 9438005 DOI: 10.1093/jjco/27.6.415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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A 52-year-old male had an abnormal shadow on a chest X-ray film. His parents were first cousins. His father, brother and two sisters had been diagnosed with Werner's syndrome. His lung lesion was diagnosed as lung cancer and right upper lobectomy was carried out. Histopathological examination of the resected specimen revealed bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma with independent atypical adenomatous hyperplasia in the alveolar zone. The alveolar structures were those seen in aging lungs, suggesting a close relationship between Werner's syndrome and cancer development.
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- A Yamanaka
- Department of Chest Surgery, Fukui Red Cross Hospital, Japan
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Brooks-Wilson AR, Emond MJ, Monnat RJ. Unexpectedly low loss of heterozygosity in genetically unstable Werner syndrome cell lines. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 1997. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2264(199702)18:2<133::aid-gcc8>3.0.co;2-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Bartal C, Yerushalmi R, Zilberman D, Yermiyahu T. A patient with Werner's syndrome and erythroleukemia: just coincidence? Leuk Lymphoma 1996; 21:509-13, color plate XXI following 5. [PMID: 9172819 DOI: 10.3109/10428199609093452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Werner's syndrome is a rare clinical entity and approximately 150 cases have been reported in the medical literature. Werner's syndrome, inherited by autosomal recessive transmission, is characterized primarily by a short stature, premature greying and balding, trophic ulceration of the legs, diabetes mellitus and hypogonadism. These features combine to present a picture of adult progeria. In this brief report we describe a 51-year-old Bedouin male with Werner's syndrome, diagnosed as erythroleukemia (AML-6), and presenting as acute pancytopenia. The patient died two months after diagnosis. This is a rare case of erythroleukemia in a patient with Werner's syndrome. We survey current knowledge of the cytogenetic pathogenesis of Werner's syndrome and erythroleukemia, and attempt to explain the possible link between these two rare syndromes.
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- C Bartal
- Department of Medicine "B", Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Two children who had the Rothmund-Thomson syndrome and developed osteosarcoma are reported. The 10 previously reported cases are reviewed. The osteosarcomas developed at a younger age than normally expected and 66% occurred in the tibia/fibula. Four of the five patients for whom information was available showed undue sensitivity to cancer chemotherapy agents with prolonged myelosuppression and severe mucositis. It is recommended that doxorubicin in particular should be given with extreme caution in such patients.
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- A Leonard
- Department of Child Health, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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YOSHIDA Y, NAGAE S, IMAYAMA S, HORI Y, KUBOKAWA K, NAWATA H. Combined Chemotherapy with Intralesional Interferon-.BETA. Injection for Malignant Melanoma in a Patient with Werner's Syndrome. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.2336/nishinihonhifu.57.741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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