Published on Feb 2, 2021
Medicine
13. "Carney" !
- Carney’s triad: GIST, Pulmonary chondroma, and/or functioning extra-adrenal Paraganglioma. Associated with succinate dehydrogenase mutations
- Carney’s syndrome/complex: An autosomal dominant syndrome associated with spotty pigmentation of the skin, endocrinopathy, and endocrine and nonendocrine tumors, including the following:
- Myxomas of the skin,heart breast, and other sites
- Primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease
- Psammomatous melanotic schwannomas
- Growth hormone–producing pituitary adenomas
- Testicular Sertoli-cell tumors
- Tumors of the thyroid gland and ductal adenomas of the breast, as well as acromegaly due to somatomammotroph hyperplasia and adenomas not dependent on growth hormone–releasing hormone
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