Multiple neurilemmomas in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: case report

J Hand Surg Am. 2012 Apr;37(4):792-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2011.12.011. Epub 2012 Feb 9.

Abstract

We present a case of a young woman with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome and multiple neurilemmomas involving different nerves in a single extremity. Birt-Hogg-Dubé is an uncommon but increasingly recognized syndrome. Hand surgeons may wish to consider this disease when faced with a patient with multiple neurilemmomas, especially when associated with renal tumors, spontaneous pneumothoraces, or other benign or malignant neural or non-neural tumors.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenoma, Oxyphilic / complications
  • Adult
  • Birt-Hogg-Dube Syndrome / complications*
  • Female
  • Fingers / innervation*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / complications
  • Neurilemmoma / complications*
  • Neurilemmoma / surgery
  • Soft Tissue Neoplasms / complications*

Supplementary concepts

  • Oncocytoma, renal