Renal manifestation of Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome depicted by 18F-fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in a patient with hurtle cell thyroid malignancy

Renal manifestation of Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome depicted by 18F-fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in a patient with hurtle cell thyroid malignancy

Birt–Hogg–Dubé (BHD) syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by small papular skin lesions (fibrofolliculomas) causing susceptibility to kidney cancer, renal and pulmonary cysts, spontaneous pneumothoraces, and several noncutaneous tumors. We report a case of a 67-year-old w...

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Main Authors: Emmanouil Panagiotidis, Nagabhushan Seshadri, Sobhan Vinjamuri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2018-04-01
Series:World Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Subjects:
18f-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography
birt.hogg.dube syndrome
chromophobe renal cell carcinoma
hurtle cell thyroid cancer
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_93_16
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