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. 2018 Aug 31;9:353. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00353

Table 1.

Testing and clinical diagnosis criteria.

CS/PHTS testing criteria
Individual from a family with a known PTEN mutation
Individual meeting clinical diagnosis criteria for CS/PHTS
Individual with personal history of:
- BRRS or Lhermitte–Duclos disease or Autism spectrum disorder and macrocephaly or
- Two or more biopsy-proven trichilemmomas or
- two or more major criteria (one must be macrocephaly) or
- Three major criteria without macrocephaly or
- One major and > 3 minor criteria or
- >4 criteria
At-risk individual with a relative with a clinical diagnosis of CS/PHTS or BRRS for whom testing has not been performed (At-risk: any one major criterion or two minor criteria)

Clinical diagnosis criteria for CS/PHTS

Major criteria:
Breast cancer
Endometrial cancer
Follicular thyroid cancer
Multiple gastro-intestinal hamartomas or ganglioneuromas
Macrocephaly
Macular pigmentation of gland penis
Mucocutaneous lesions (one biopsy-proven trichilemmoma, multiple palmoplantar keratosis, multiple or extensive oral mucosal papillomatosis, multiple cutaneous facial papules)
Minor criteria:
Autism spectrum disorder
Colon cancer
>3 esophageal glycogenic acanthoses
Lipomas
Intellectual disability (QI < 75)
Papillary or follicular variant of papillary thyroid cancer
Thyroid structural lesions
Renal cell carcinoma
Single gastro-intestinal hamartoma or ganglioneuroma
Testicular lipomatosis
Vascular anomalies
Operational diagnosis in an individual (either of the following):
(1) Three or more major criteria, but one must include macrocephaly, Lhermitte–Duclos disease, or gastrointestinal hamartomas; or
(2) Two major and three minor criteria.
Operational diagnosis in a family where one individual meets revised PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome clinical diagnostic criteria or has a PTEN mutation:
(1) Any two major criteria with or without minor criteria; or
(2) One major and two minor criteria; or
(3) Three minor criteria.

Testing criteria (Version 2.2016) are defined by National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Clinical diagnosis criteria have been proposed and revised by Pilarski et al. (2013).