loading...| Preferred Name | Familial adenomatous polyposis | |
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FAP |
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(FAP) - A cancer predisposition syndrome characterized by adenomatous polyps of the colon and rectum, but also of upper gastrointestinal tract (ampullary, duodenal and gastric adenomas). This is a viciously premalignant disease with one or more polyps progressing through dysplasia to malignancy in untreated gene carriers with a median age at diagnosis of 40 years. |
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http://identifiers.org/omim/175100 |
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FAP |
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| definition |
(FAP) - A cancer predisposition syndrome characterized by adenomatous polyps of the colon and rectum, but also of upper gastrointestinal tract (ampullary, duodenal and gastric adenomas). This is a viciously premalignant disease with one or more polyps progressing through dysplasia to malignancy in untreated gene carriers with a median age at diagnosis of 40 years. |
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OMIM:175100 |
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OMIM:175100 |
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Familial adenomatous polyposis |
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