title: Basal cell carcinomas in a young woman with Steinert's disease.
abstract: Steinert's disease or Myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1) is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by myotonia, muscular dystrophy, cataracts, hypogonadism, frontal balding, and electrocardiographic alterations.Several tumors have been associated with DM1 such as pilomatricoma, thymomas and insulinomas. Herein, we describe the unusual onset of multiple basal cell carcinomas in a young woman with DM1.
authors.affiliation: University of Rome "Sapienza".
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Miraglia
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cantisani
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giustini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ambrifi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Soda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Calvieri
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001706:Biopsy; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009223:Myotonic Dystrophy / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*