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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Endocrinol. 2015 Jun 30;173(4):M85–M97. doi: 10.1530/EJE-15-0209

Table 3.

Conditions to be considered in the differential diagnosis of CNC per tissue manifestation

Organ Related Disorders
Heart (cardiac myxomas) Sporadic myxomas
  • Adults: most common type of cardiac tumor

  • Children: approximately 30% of cardiac tumor


Familial myxomas due to mutation of a protein of the myosin family
Skin (lentigines) Familial lentiginosis, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, LEOPARD syndrome, Noonan syndrome with lentiginosis, Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome
Skin (café-au-lait spots) McCune-Albright syndrome, Neurofibromatosis type 1, Neurofibromatosis type 2, Watson syndrome
Skin (blue nevi) Solitary lesions
Thyroid (tumors) Cowden syndrome, Sporadic thyroid tumors
Testes (Large-cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumor (LCCSCT)) Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
Ovarian (tumors) Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
Adrenals Sporadic isolated primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease (PPNAD)
Isolated micronodular adrenocortical hyperplasia
Adrenocortical tumors Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1 (MEN1), Congenital adrenal hyperplasia resulting from 21-hydroxylase deficiency, McCune-Albright syndrome
Pituitary (GH-secreting adenoma) MEN1, Isolated Familial Somatotropinomas (IFS), Sporadic somatotropinomas
Schwannomas Neurofibromatosis type 1, Neurofibromatosis type 2, Isolated familial schwannomatosis