Carney's triad: apropos of a new case.
Carney's triad is defined by the coexistence of at least two of three rare disorders, including gastric epithelioid leiomyosarcoma (malignant leiomyoblastoma), pulmonary chondroma, and paraganglioma, most often extra-adrenal and functioning. We report a new case in a 10-year-old girl. The paraganglioma, although nonfunctioning, was detected after it was searched for, as Carney's triad was suspected. Unrelated seems the development of breast fibroadenomas in the same patient. Whenever a patient with one component of the triad is encountered, the possibility of this syndrome should be considered and the other two components sought.
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Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hospital Materno-Infantil, Málaga, Spain.
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García-Martín
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Urda
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Campos
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D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D002812:Chondroma; D005260:Female; D018226:Fibroadenoma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000473:pathology*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013577:Syndrome