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Lung cysts in Birt‐Hogg‐Dubé syndrome: Histopathological characteristics and aberrant sequence repeats
24 Sept 2009
Abstract excerpt
Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) syndrome is a rare disorder inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. The affected patients are predisposed to cutaneous fibrofolliculomas, renal cell tumors and lung cysts with recurrent pneumothorax. Contrary to neoplastic events in the skin and the kidney, the lung cysts have frequently been confused with non-neoplastic changes such as blebs or bullae. Herein is reported a case of...
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