The Glioma-Polyposis Syndrome
- 11 December 1969
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 281 (24) , 1345-1346
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196912112812407
Abstract
FAMILIAL polyposis of the colon may be associated with osteomas, fibromas and sebaceous cysts in the Gardner syndrome,1 with endocrine adenomatosis2 and with brain tumors.3 The association with brain tumors was reported by Turcot et al.3 in 1959. To our knowledge the family reported herein (Fig. 1) is the second example of this syndrome.Case ReportCase 1. D.F. (B.M.H. 49262), a 12-year-old girl, was hospitalized on August 8, 1965, 2 weeks after a seizure involving the right arm and leg. She also complained of frontal headache and diarrhea. Her father, who was 47, and her mother, who was 41, . . .Keywords
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