Handbook of Genetic Counseling/Lhermitte-Duclos disease

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Lhermitte-Duclos disease (LDD):

  • associated with Cowden syndrome.
  • dysplastic gangliocytoma (hamartoma) of the cerebellum.
  • sporadic, familial.
  • PTEN mutations.
  • all patients with LDD should be counselled as in Cowden syndrome.