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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg Pathol. 2017 Feb;41(2):171–181. doi: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000000748

Table 1.

Clinical and Selected Family Findings for 29 Patients With Carney Complex (CNC)

Patient/Reference Sex/Age at First Manifestation of CNC/Age at Diagnosis of CNC Cushing Syndrome (Age, y) Components of CNC/Other Conditions Family Identification/No. of Generations Affected Germline PRKAR1A Mutation
1/10 F/4 y/65 y Classic (17)
Remitted spontaneously (24)
Subclinical (65)
Lentiginosis/pilonidal cyst, pancreatic carcinoma A/2 Not tested
2/10 M/4 y/44 y (at autopsy) Classic (17)
Persistent (44)
Lentiginosis/bilateral simple mastectomy (gynecomastia), pilonidal cyst, inguinal hernia (prolapsed omental fat) A Not tested
3/11 F/12 y/37 y Classic (12) Lentiginosis, nasal schwannoma/depression, Graves disease, cerebral ischemic event, bilateral ovarian carcinoma A None
4 F/2 y/48 y Classic (3) Multiple left atrial myxomas,a blue nevus/osteopenia, 1-cm cystic pancreatic mass, 1.7-cm hypodense splenic mass B/4 c496C>T/p.Gln166X
5 M/Birth/4 y Classic (4) Facial and labial lentiginosis, bilateral punctate testicular calcifications, cutaneous myxomas, osteopenia with multiple fractures B c496C>T/p.Gln166X
6 F/3 y/14 y Classic (4, left adrenalectomy)
Recurrent classic (14, right adrenalectomy)
Facial and mucosal lentiginosis, blue nevus B c496C>T/p.Gln166X
7 F/12 y/12 y Classic (14) Lentiginosis, multichamber cardiac myxoma, external ear canal myxoma B c496C>T/p.Gln166X
8 M/2 y/2 y (family screening for CNC) Classic (10) Lentiginosis, bilateral testicular calcifications, pituitary tumor B c496C>T/p.Gln166X
9 F/3 y/42 y Classic (cyclic) (2) Lentiginosis, left atrial myxoma/Ebstein anomaly C/1 Not tested
10/12 F/Birth/32 y Classic (34) Lentiginosis, multichamber cardiac myxoma, cutaneous and mammary myxomas, pituitary adenoma/thyroid adenoma D/3 c.340delG/p.Val113fsX15
11 F/<6 y/43 y Classic (6) Lentiginosis, blue nevus, multichamber cardiac myxoma, cutaneous myxomas/bilateral multifocal follicular thyroid carcinoma with lymph node metastasis, hepatic cirrhosis, nephrolithiasis (left nephrectomy), type 2 diabetes mellitus E/2 c.712insAA/p.SER238fsX3
12 F/Birth/18 y Classic (15) Lentiginosis, right atrial myxoma, bilateral mammary myxomas, pituitary adenoma F/3 Declined testing
13/13 F/12 y/28 y Classic (14, left adrenalectomy; 17, right adrenalectomy) Multichamber cardiac myxoma, psammomatous melanotic schwannoma G/2 C.286C>T/p.Arg96X
14/13 F/Birth/32 y Classic (8) Lentiginosis, multichamber cardiac myxoma (hemiplegia due to myxoma embolus) G C.286C>T/p.Arg96X
15 F/Childhood/46 y Classic (46) Lentiginosis, right atrial myxoma, cutaneous and bilateral mammary myxomas H/2 IVS4+1G>C
16 F/Birth/11 y Classic (11) Lentiginosis, mitral valve myxoma, bilateral mammary myxomas I/1 p.arg228term
17 F/2 y/29 y Nonfunctioning adrenal mass (2, right adrenalectomy)
Classic (27, left adrenalectomy)
Short stature (142 cm), bilateral mammary myxoid fibroadenomas, lentiginosis, elevated insulinlike growth factor 1/developmental delay, epilepsy, mesial temporal sclerosis, osteopenia, stress fractures, necrotizing pneumonia (right upper lobectomy) J/1 Gene deleted
Partial duplication of chromosome 2
18 M/Birth/37 y Subclinical (45) Lentiginosis, unilateral LCCSCT, psammomatous melanotic schwannoma K/1 c.348+1g>c
19 F/6 y/26 y Subclinical (57) Lentiginosis, mammary myxoma, blue nevus/depression D c.340delG/p.Val113fsX15
20/14 M/6 mo/35 y Subclinical (46) Lentiginosis, multichamber cardiac myxoma (hemiplegia due to myxoma embolus), bilateral testicular calcifications, cutaneous myxoma, pituitary microadenoma L/1 Declined testing
21 M/Childhood/15 y Subclinical (22) Lentiginosis, multiple left atrial myxomas (cerebral embolus) bilateral testicular calcifications H Not tested
Mother (patient 15) had mutation
22 F/8 y/19 y Subclinical (19) Lentiginosis, multichamber cardiac myxoma with residual hemiplegia cutaneous and mammary myxomas M/1 Not tested
23 M/Birth/29 y Subclinical (29) Lentiginosis, LCCSCT/splenic hemangiomas N/1 Not tested
Cytogenic analysis showed 2 abnormal metaphases at chromosome 17q25
24 M/12 y/40 y Possible (41) Lentiginosis, multichamber cardiac myxoma, cutaneous myxoma, bilateral testicular calcifications/1.5-cm liver mass, nephrolithiasis O/2 c.891G>A
25 F/34 y/49 y Possible (34) Pituitary adenoma, recurrent left atrial myxoma, mammary myxoma/multinodular goiter, pilonidal cyst, left superior vena cava entry into coronary sinus Not tested Not tested
26 F/4 y/18 y Possible (22) Lentiginosis, café au lait spot, cutaneous “dermatofibromas” Q/1 C992–993delGA
2-bp deletion in exon 10
27 F/3 y/34 y (autopsy) Possible (34) Lentiginosis, multichamber cardiac myxoma, cutaneous myxomas, blue nevus (surgical), right atrial myxoma, bilateral adrenal vacuolated cell hyperplasia with micronodules and a unilateral eosinophilic cell macronodule with lipochrome (at autopsy) R/2 Not tested
28 F/Unknown/33 y (autopsy) Possible (33) Lentiginosis and mammary myxomas (surgical), left atrial myxoma, PPNAD, pituitary Crooke cells, osteopenia (at autopsy) S/1 Not tested
29 M/Birth/37 y Possible (42) Lentiginosis, bilateral LCCSCT, PPNAD in rete testis, spermatic cord ectopic adrenal rest with PPNAD-type features, left atrial myxoma, pituitary adenoma/submandibular pleomorphic adenoma, inflammatory bowel disease (colectomy), depression T/1 Not tested

Abbreviations: LCCSCT, large-cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumor; PPNAD, primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease.

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Cardiac myxoma is usually a single left atrial tumor affecting middle-aged patients; 75% of patients are women.