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Case Reports
. 2022 May 23;2022(5):omac054.
doi: 10.1093/omcr/omac054. eCollection 2022 May.

A case of recurrent pneumothorax and skin lesions diagnosed with Birt-Hogg-Dubé

Ali Hossein Samadi Takaldani  1 , Mohammad Negaresh  2 , Solmaz Jalalzadeh  2 , Leila Lotfi  2 , Hassan Ghobadi  1
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Case Reports

A case of recurrent pneumothorax and skin lesions diagnosed with Birt-Hogg-Dubé

Ali Hossein Samadi Takaldani et al. Oxf Med Case Reports. .

Abstract

Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) syndrome is an autosomal dominant disease that is manifested as benign cutaneous tumors, multiple lung parenchymal cysts and an increased risk of renal cancer. Its symptoms usually do not appear until adulthood. We report a patient who was admitted with recurrent pneumothorax. Discovering typical cutaneous lesions accompanied with a history of the same condition in his son, BHD syndrome was diagnosed.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Patient’s skin lesions. (A) fibrofolliculoma and trichodiscom (yellow arrow) (B) Acrochordon (red arrows).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Patients chest CT scan: (A) right side pneumothorax. (B, C) multiple parenchymal cysts (blue arrow) and, sub-pleural fibrosis at the inferior lobes of both lungs (yellow arrow).
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