Turcot's syndrome and familial adenomatous polyposis associated with brain tumor: review of related literature

We investigated clinical manifestations in 124 patients with a possible Turcot's syndrome whose data were taken from documented cases. The cases were subclassified mainly on the bases of the type of familial occurrence and listed in five Tables. We searched for differences in colonic manifestat...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inInternational journal of colorectal disease Vol. 8; no. 2; p. 87
Main Authors Itoh, H, Hirata, K, Ohsato, K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany 01.07.1993
Subjects
Adenomatous Polyposis Coli - diagnosis
Adenomatous Polyposis Coli - genetics
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Brain Neoplasms - diagnosis
Brain Neoplasms - genetics
Child
Consanguinity
Female
Glioma - diagnosis
Glioma - genetics
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Syndrome
Online AccessGet more information

Cover

More Information
Summary:We investigated clinical manifestations in 124 patients with a possible Turcot's syndrome whose data were taken from documented cases. The cases were subclassified mainly on the bases of the type of familial occurrence and listed in five Tables. We searched for differences in colonic manifestation, histologic type of glioma, mode of inheritance, frequency of parental consanguinity, skin lesions and other accompanying lesions among these five groups. The differences of these clinical findings suggested that glioma-polyposis syndrome should be classified as follows; (1) cases of Turcot's syndrome who had characteristic colonic and brain manifestations, (2) cases of FAP associated with glioma, (3) suspicious cases of glioma-polyposis, and (4) cases other than glioma-polyposis syndrome.
ISSN:0179-1958
1432-1262
DOI:10.1007/BF00299334