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Carolina Degen Meotti, Raquel Fonseca Ferreira da Silva Pulga, Karen de Almeida Pinto Fernandes, Paula Regazzi de Gusmao, Karina de Almeida Pinto Fernandes, and Ana Rita Rocha
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Hamartoma syndrome, multiple ,Mouth diseases ,Neoplasms ,Dermatology ,RL1-803 - Abstract
Cowden's disease or multiple hamartoma syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disease and the main dermatological features are facial trichilemmomas (hamartomas of the follicular infundibula), oral fibroma and benign acral keratoses. The importance of this disease lays in the increased susceptibility to malignization of some lesions, especially breast, thyroid and genitourinary tract. Despite its varied phenotypic expression, this disease is generally unknown. Consequently, many cases are undiagnosed or diagnosis comes at a late stage, which reinforces the importance of an early investigation of the disease so the patient may have periodic check-ups to discover and treat malignancies.
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- 2013
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