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FLCN gene-mutated renal cell neoplasms: mother and daughter cases with a novel germline mutation.
International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association - 1 May 2012
Nagashima Yoji, Furuya Mitsuko, Gotohda Hiroko, Takagi Seiji, Hes Ondrej, Michal Michal, Grossmann Petr, Tanaka Reiko, Nakatani Yukio, Kuroda Naoto
Abstract excerpt
Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome is a familial genodermatosis, of which patients frequently develop renal neoplasms, fibrofolliculomas and pneumatocele. Here, we report a mother and daughter with renal neoplasms surgically resected (69 and 46 years-of-age at surgery, respectively). The mother's tumor was diagnosed as an unclassified type renal cell carcinoma associated with microscopic tumorous nodules, whereas the...
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