Pneumothorax developing for the first time in a 73-year-old woman diagnosed with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 2453-2455

  Kunogi Okura, Makiko ^a,c   Yae, Toshifumi ^a   Nagashima, Osamu ^a   Hirai, Shu ^a   Kumasaka, Toshio ^b,c   Iwase, Akihiko ^a  

^a JUNTENDO TOKYO KOTO GERIATRIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Study Group of Pneumothorax and Cystic Lung Diseases   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cystic lung diseases; Fibrofolliculoma; FLCN; Pulmonary cysts; Secondary pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIRT HOGG DUBE SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLCN GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PAPULE; PNEUMOTHORAX; SKIN BIOPSY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BIRT-HOGG-DUBE SYNDROME; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84887070656     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.52.0338     Document Type: Article

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