Monges-Jones JE, González-Jáuregui DF, Sánchez-González JA, Meza-Díaz R, Carrera-Muńoz A, González-Acosta J

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ABSTRACT

Renal cancer represents 3% of malignant tumors. Its presentation can be sporadic or hereditary. One of the hereditary presentations is renal oncocytoma, which is associated with Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS). This syndrome presents with cutaneous lesions (fibrofolliculoma, trichodiscoma), renal tumors, and pulmonary alterations (cysts, spontaneous pneumothorax).
A 16-year-old female patient had disease onset in June 2010 with moderate pain in the right iliac fossa. Physical examination revealed fibrofollicular lesions on the cheeks and a tumor in the right renal fossa that was firm, mobile, and painless when palpated.
Computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan of the abdomen identified a renal tumor. Right radical nephrectomy was performed. The histopathologic diagnosis was renal cancer.
A control thoracic CAT scan was carried out when the patient presented with left hydropneumothorax, for which a pleural catheter was placed.

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