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Turcot's syndrome: a new case in the first decade of life
E Scribano1, G Loria, G Ascenti
1Institute of Radiological Sciences, University of Messina, Italy.
Abdominal Imaging
|March 1, 1995
Abstract:
A case of Turcot's syndrome is described in an 8-year-old girl. Turcot's syndrome is a rare hereditary disease in which malignant glioma of the central nervous system is associated with colonic polyposis. The patient initially presented with a left parietal glioblastoma diagnosed by computed tomography (CT), and was subsequently found to have nonfamilial colonic polyposis.