Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba Syndrome
A Guide for patients and their families
Other Names
Sarah Burton, UI Health Care
Joy Larsen Haidle, MS, CGC, UI Health Care
Heather Hampel, MS, CGC, Ohio State University
Peer Review Status: Internally reviewed by the authors
First Published: 2002
Last Revised: 2002
That's Not the Name My Doctor Gave Me
Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome is not the only name used for this condition. You may have seen it referred to as Ruvalcaba-Myhre syndrome, Riley-Smith syndrome, or Bannayan-Zonana syndrome. The use of different names is not meant to be confusing, but it can be. The problem started when several different groups of physicians and researchers began describing collections of features they observed in some of their patients. Each group believed that they were describing a new condition. Because Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome consists of a variety of features that occur at different times or not at all, the names became even more confused. Simply put, different people will show different features even though they have the same condition and that was enough to make researchers at the time believe they were noting a number of different conditions. In fact, scientists did not realize that all these names were describing one condition until 1986, when it was proposed that Bannayan syndrome and Ruvalcaba-Myhre syndrome were one and the same. Since then, many names have been added to the list of syndromes. Below are several names that you may encounter.
- Bannayan-Zonana syndrome
- Riley-Smith syndrome
- Ruvalcaba-Myhre syndrome
- Ruvalcaba-Myhre-Smith syndrome
- Bannayan syndrome
- Cowden/Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba overlap syndrome
- PTEN Hamartoma Tumor syndrome
- Macrocephaly, pseudopapilledema, multiple hemangiomata syndrome
- Macrocephaly, multiple lipomas, hemangiomata syndrome
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