Autopsy and Case Reports (Jun 2017)

A second reported malignancy in a patient with Morquio syndrome

  • Ameer Hamza,
  • Sidrah Khawar,
  • Ahmad Ibrahim,
  • Jacob Edens,
  • Crystal Lalonde,
  • Robert D. Danforth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4322/acr.2017.019
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 2

Abstract

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Morquio syndrome is a rare lysosomal storage disease that affects multiple organ systems. However, it is rarely associated with malignancy. We present the case of a 30-year old man with Morquio syndrome associated with gastric adenocarcinoma. This case also demonstrates two other findings that have not been previously described in patients with Morquio syndrome - malrotation of brainstem and cerebellum, without clinical neurologic deficit, and persistence of fetal lobulation in the kidneys

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