Masato Abe

ORCID: 0000-0002-0468-1179 · 1 paper in corpus

article 2019

Metachronous ovarian endometrioid carcinomas in a patient with a PTEN variant: case report of incidentally detected Cowden syndrome

BMC cancer ·doi:10.1186/s12885-019-6272-2

BACKGROUND: Somatic PTEN mutation occurs in a proportion of ovarian endometrioid carcinomas. However, these cancers have seldom been reported in diseases associated with germline PTEN variants, such as Cowden syndrome (CS). CASE PRESENTATIO…