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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 792-794 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Journal of Hand Surgery |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2012 |
Keywords
- Birt-Hogg-Dubé
- fibrofolliculoma
- multifocal
- neural tumor
- neurilemmoma
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Surgery
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine