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Preferred term

Gardner Syndrome  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Gardner's Syndrome
  • Gardners Syndrome
  • Gardner's Syndromes
  • Syndrome, Gardner's
  • Syndromes, Gardner's

Scope note

  • A variant of ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI caused by mutation in the APC gene (GENES, APC) on CHROMOSOME 5. It is characterized by not only the presence of multiple colonic polyposis but also extracolonic ADENOMATOUS POLYPS in the UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; the EYE; the SKIN; the SKULL; and the FACIAL BONES; as well as malignancy in organs other than the GI tract.

History note

  • 1981

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005736

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