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Tsuyoshi Inoshita, MD; George A. Youngberg, MD
Department of Pathology East Tennessee State University Box 19540A Johnson City, TN 37614-0002

Arch Dermatol. 1985;121(6):714.

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We identified a small but apparently distinct group of patients (consisting of three other cases in addition to our own case) who have a single female genital tract neoplasm closely associated chronologically with multiple or aggressive keratoacanthomas. The purpose of assigning a name to this association was to specifically identify it so that further cases will be recognized. Time tell if this associated group of findings will hold up as a specific entity.

The comments of Drs Fusaro and Lynch concerning CFS are undoubtedly correct, but are inappropriate to our report. We were reporting a group of associated findings and did not specifically imply that we had identified a genetic syndrome. Our speculations concerning the etiology of the association included noting that the keratoacanthomas may have been a result of immunologic abnormalities seen in cancer patients (an epiphenomenon). We also compared the keratoacanthomas in our syndrome to other . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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