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Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) is a rare dominantly inherited disorder characterized by multiple premalignant polyposis in the colon and rectum, occasional polyps in the upper gastro-intestinal tract and other extra-intestinal manifestations including osteomas and epidermoid cysts, desmoid formation, congenital hypertrophy of retinal pigment and other malignant changes including in the thyroid gland.
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Slack, J. (1990). The Probability of Developing Familial Adenomatous Polyposis: Combining the Diminishing Risks with Age with Negative Screening at Advancing Age and Linked Gene Markers. In: Utsunomiya, J., Lynch, H.T. (eds) Hereditary Colorectal Cancer. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68337-7_11
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