Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: identifying patients at risk of renal cell carcinoma, pulmonary cysts and pneumothoraces

BMJ Case Rep. 2016 Jan 13:2016:bcr2015213865. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2015-213865.

Authors

Stephanie Menzies¹, Aurelie Fabre², Aoife Lally¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
² Department of Histopathology, St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Angiofibroma / etiology
Angiofibroma / pathology*
Birt-Hogg-Dube Syndrome / complications
Birt-Hogg-Dube Syndrome / diagnosis*
Carcinoma, Renal Cell / diagnosis
Carcinoma, Renal Cell / etiology
Cysts / diagnosis
Cysts / etiology
Ear Neoplasms / etiology
Ear Neoplasms / pathology*
Female
Humans
Kidney Neoplasms / diagnosis
Kidney Neoplasms / etiology
Lung Diseases / diagnosis
Lung Diseases / etiology
Pneumothorax / diagnosis
Pneumothorax / etiology
Risk Assessment
Skin Neoplasms / etiology
Skin Neoplasms / pathology*