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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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| Issue : 5 | Page : 594-596 |
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A case of dyskeratosis congenita with primary amenorrhea and adenocarcinoma of stomach
Nandini Chakrabarti1, Nilendu Sarma2, Chandan Chattopadhyay3, Atanu Roy Chowdhuri4, Chanchal Das1, Salil K Pal5
1 Department of Medicine, NRS Medical College, Kolkata, India
2 Department of Dermatology, NRS Medical College, Kolkata, India
3 Department of Pharmacology, KPC Medical College, Kolkata, India
4 Department of Medicine, North Bengal Medical College, Siliguri, India
5 Department of Medicine, Midnapore Medical College, Midnapore, India
Correspondence Address:
Nandini Chakrabarti
358, N S C Bose Road, Kolkata - 700 047
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0019-5154.87167
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Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a rare disease characterized by hyperpigmentation, nail dystrophy and mucous membrane abnormality. Commonly occurring in males, the patients die young usually due to bone marrow suppression. Malignancies of various descriptions have been reported in this disease, the commonest being solid tumors of head/neck (squamous cell carcinoma). We report the case of a female patient with DC, who presented to us with severe wasting and primary amenorrhea and died of carcinoma stomach in our hospital 3 weeks later. |
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