Bourneville's disease, first described in 1862, is a phacomatosis that is either autosomal dominant or sporadic. Its typical clinical signs include mental retardation, epilepsy and cutaneous adenomas. The pulmonary form is rare, less than 1%, and is secondary to occlusion of the bronchus, vascular and lymphatics by immature smooth muscle cells. Chylothorax may appear in more than 50% of all cases. No guidelines currently exist for treatment of recurrent chylothorax. However, several possibilities are described in the literature.

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