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Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: Clinical and molecular aspects of recently identified kidney cancer syndrome.
International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association - 1 Mar 2016
Hasumi Hisashi, Baba Masaya, Hasumi Yukiko, Furuya Mitsuko, Yao Masahiro
Abstract excerpt
Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome is an autosomal dominantly inherited disease that predisposes patients to develop fibrofolliculoma, lung cysts and bilateral multifocal renal tumors, histologically hybrid oncocytic/chromophobe tumors, chromophobe renal cell carcinoma, oncocytoma, papillary renal cell carcinoma and clear cell renal cell carcinoma. The predominant forms of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome-associated renal tumors,...
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