Cesare Danesino, Monica Gualtierotti, Matteo Origi, Angelina Cistaro, Michela Malacarne, Matteo Massidda, Katia Bencardino, Domenico Coviello, Giovanni Albani, Irene Giovanna Schiera, Alexandra Liava, Andrea Guala
BACKGROUND: In Cri du Chat (CdC), cancer as comorbidity is extremely rare. In databases from Denmark, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, no cancer was reported; in Italy and Germany, four cancers were identified out of 321 CdCs. METHODS: In a 29-year-old CdC patient, clinical investigations following hematemesis led to the diagnosis of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). A high pain threshold was also observed. Conventional and molecular cytogenetic defined the size of the deletion, and exome analysis on the trio completed the molecular work...
December 29, 2023: Diseases (Basel)