Case Report

Carney Complex: A Rare Case of Multicentric Cardiac Myxoma Associated with Endocrinopathy

Table 1

Diagnostic criteria for carney complex.

(1) Spotty skin pigmentation with a typical distribution (lips, conjunctiva and inner or outer canthi, vaginal and penile mucosa)
(2) Myxoma (cutaneous and mucosal)a
(3) Cardiac myxomaa
(4) Breast myxomatosisa or fat-suppressed magnetic resonance imaging findings suggestive of this diagnosis
(5) PPNADa or paradoxical positive response of urinary glucocorticosteroids to dexamethasone administration during Liddle’s test
(6) Acromegaly due to GH-producing adenomaa
(7) LCCSCTa or characteristic calcification on testicular ultrasonography
(8) Thyroid carcinomaa or multiple, hypoechoic nodules on thyroid ultrasonography, in a young patient
(9) Psammomatous melanotic schwannomaa
(10) Blue nevus, epithelioid blue nevus (multiple)a
(11) Breast ductal adenoma (multiple)a
(12) Osteochondromyxomaa
Supplemental criteria
(1) Affected first-degree relative
(2) Inactivating mutation of the PRKARIA gene

To make a diagnostic of CNC, a patient must either (1) exhibit two of the manifestations of the diseases listed or (2) exhibit one of these manifestations and meet one of the supplemental criteria (an affected first-degree relative or an inactivating mutation of the PRKARIA gene). aWith histologic information.