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Fanconi anemia surgery
Introduction
Overview
Overview
There is no surgical treatment of Fanconi anemia.
Surgery
Surgery
There is no surgical treatment of Fanconi anemia. However elective splenectomy and bone marrow transplant are end-stage therapies for Fanconi anemia, as is true for any other aplastic anemia.[1][2][3]
References
References
- ↑ Guan J, Fransson S, Siaw JTT, Treis D, Van den Eynden J, Chand D; et al. (2018). “Clinical response of the novel activating ALK-I1171T mutation in neuroblastoma to the ALK inhibitor ceritinib”. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. doi:10.1101/mcs.a002550. PMID 29907598.
- ↑ Kulanuwat S, Jungtrakoon P, Tangjittipokin W, Yenchitsomanus PT, Plengvidhya N (2018). “Fanconi anemia complementation group C protection against oxidative stress‑induced β‑cell apoptosis”. Mol Med Rep. doi:10.3892/mmr.2018.9163. PMID 29901137.
- ↑ Verhagen CVM, Vossen DM, Borgmann K, Hageman F, Grénman R, Verwijs-Janssen M; et al. (2018). “Fanconi anemia and homologous recombination gene variants are associated with functional DNA repair defects in vitro and poor outcome in patients with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma”. Oncotarget. 9 (26): 18198–18213. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.24797. PMC 5915066. PMID 29719599.
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