title: Do you know this syndrome?
abstract: Cowden's disease or multiple hamartoma syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disease and the main dermatological features are facial trichilemmomas (hamartomas of the follicular infundibula), oral fibroma and benign acral keratoses. The importance of this disease lays in the increased susceptibility to malignization of some lesions, especially breast, thyroid and genitourinary tract. Despite its varied phenotypic expression, this disease is generally unknown. Consequently, many cases are undiagnosed or diagnosis comes at a late stage, which reinforces the importance of an early investigation of the disease so the patient may have periodic check-ups to discover and treat malignancies.
authors.affiliation: Rio de JaneiroRJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carolina Degen
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Meotti
authors.forename: Raquel Fonseca Ferreira da Silva
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Pulga
authors.forename: Karen de Almeida Pinto
authors.initials: Kde A
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.forename: Paula Regazzi de
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Gusmão
authors.forename: Karina de Almeida Pinto
authors.initials: Kde A
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.forename: Ana Rita
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Rocha
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006223:Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*