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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Day #210 Complex Case - Gaucher's Disease

A very complicated case today where we touched upon multiple issues.

Here is a good case review of more than 1000 patients with Gaucher's disease.

Here is a case review of malignancies in Gaucher's disease.
  • Bottom line: The risk of lymphoma, melanoma, and pancreatic cancer is 2-3 fold that of age matched healthy controls.
Posted by tcl at 14:30

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