Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: A little known cause of pulmonary cysts
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Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: a little known cause of pulmonary cysts.
Dermatologists are more familiar with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome than radiologists are, since the cutaneous symptoms are the dominant feature of this rare syndrome. It is an autosomal dominant genodermatosis classically composed of multiple cutaneous hamartomas, renal tumours, and pulmonary cysts, which are often forerunners of spontaneous pneumothorax. It is rarely considered in the differential ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2211-5684
DOI: 10.1016/j.diii.2014.06.008