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SUBMITTER: Matano F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8632216 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Matano Fumihiro F Murai Yasuo Y Watanabe Atsushi A Shirokane Kazutaka K Igarashi Takehito T Shimizu Kazuo K Shimada Takashi T Morita Akio A
Frontiers in endocrinology 20211111
To the best of our knowledge, we report a case of MEN2A complicated by moyamoya syndrome. A 52-year-old woman presented with vertigo. Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) revealed bilateral supraclinoid stenosis of the internal carotid artery and abnormal moyamoya-like vessels around the basal ganglia. She had a heterozygous variant of <i>RNF213</i>, which is the susceptibility gene for moyamoya disease. She had also previously received diagnoses of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) at age 23 an ...[more]