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I Stępniak1, T Trojanowski2, A Drelich-Zbroja3
1Department of Genetics, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland.
Abstract:
We report a patient with features of Cowden syndrome (CS). A 35-year old woman has been suffering from headache, vertigo and mild imbalance since 2 years. Examination showed subtle mucocutaneous lesions: papillomatous papules on the gingival mucosa, a few verrucous acral skin lesions and macrocephaly. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a tumor of the left cerebellar hemisphere with "tiger-striped" pattern on T2-weighted image (T2WI), typical of Lhermitte-Duclos disease (LDD)--one of the pathognomonic but infrequent features of CS. A pathogenic de novo heterozygous PTEN mutation: c.49C>T variant has been identified in exon 1 of the PTEN gene by sequencing.
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