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Appearance of an atypical mole on the grafted skin in a patient with unilateral atypical mole syndrome Volume 7, numéro 2, March 1997

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Division of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saga Medical School, 5-1-1, Nabeshima, Saga 849, Japan.
  • Page(s) : 125-6
  • Année de parution : 2000

The genetic basis of atypical mole and melanoma syndrome has not yet been established, despite much recent progress in this area [1-3]. The existence of cases of unilateral atypical mole syndrome, caused by a single dominant mutation, strongly supports the concept of an autosomal dominant genetic mechanism, although only 2 such cases (including the present case) have been observed thus far [4, 5]. In addition, given that melanoma occurred [...]