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Cowden disease

Autosomal dominant disease allelic with Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome (PTEN mutations).

Synopsis

- craniofacial anomalies

- pectus excavatum

- genital anomalies

- digestive anomalies

  • hamartomatous polyps
  • colon diverticula

- scoliosis
- kyphosis

- cutaneous anomalies

  • multiple facial papules
  • acral keratoses
  • palmoplantar keratoses
  • multiple inverted follicular keratoses
  • multiple skin tags
  • facial trichilemmomas
  • subcutaneous lipomas

- lhermitte-Duclos disease
- cerebellar gangliocytoma manifesting as seizure and tremor

- thyroid aomalies

  • goiter
  • thyroid adenoma
  • hyperthyroidism
  • hypothyroidism
  • thyroiditis

- tumors predisposition

Etiology

- germline mutations in

  • PTEN gene (MIM.601728)
  • SDHB/SDHD of succinate dehydrogenase (18678321)
    - A Cowden-like syndrome has been found to be caused by mutation in the BMPR1A gene (MIM.601299)