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1Department of Histopathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
Abstract:
Three infants, who presented with intestinal obstruction due to diffuse transmural intestinal ganglioneuromatosis, are described. Mutation analysis of exon 16 of the RET proto-oncogene revealed germline M918T and thus, a molecular diagnosis of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B (MEN 2B). Two infants developed medullary carcinoma of the thyroid. The third had a prophylactic thyroidectomy despite no obvious thyroid masses and normal calcitonin concentrations, but microscopic multifocal medullary carcinoma was found on histological examination. Early recognition of intestinal ganglioneuromatosis with germline RET M918T mutation in pseudo-Hirschsprung's disease is an indication for prophylactic thyroidectomy.
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