Familial occurrence of oligodendroglial tumours.
Two non-identical brothers were diagnosed with anaplastic oligoastrocytoma within 4 months of each other and a maternal grandmother was diagnosed with oligodendroglioma 21 years previously. Familial clustering of oligodendrogliomas is rare.
Department of Neuroradiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland.
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Flannery
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Cawley
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Zulfiger
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Alderazi
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Heffernan
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Brett
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Farrell
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O'Brien
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000235:genetics*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000235:genetics*