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Peutz-Jeghers syndrome

Association of duodenal and bilateral breast cancers in the same patient

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A female patient with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome successively developed bilateral breast carcinoma and malignant transformation of a duodenal hamartomatous polyp, from which she died.

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  1. Département de pathologie, Service de gastroentérologie, Centre de recherche en pathophysiologie digestive, Faculté de médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

    Paul-Antoine Lehur MD,  Prométéo Madarnas MD, Ghislain Devroede MD, Bernard J. Perey MD, Daniel B. Ménard MD & Nouhad Hamade MD

  2. Département de chirurgie générale, Service de gastroentérologie, Centre de recherche en pathophysiologie digestive, Faculté de médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

    Paul-Antoine Lehur MD,  Prométéo Madarnas MD, Ghislain Devroede MD, Bernard J. Perey MD, Daniel B. Ménard MD & Nouhad Hamade MD

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Lehur, PA., Madarnas, P., Devroede, G. et al. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. Digest Dis Sci 29, 178–182 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01317062

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