PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Thomas M. Wallace
AU  - Howard S. Levin
AU  - Norman B. Ratliff
AU  - Robert E. Hobbs
TI  - Evaluation and management of Carney’s complex: an illustrative case
DP  - 1991 May 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 248--256
VI  - 58
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/58/3/248.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/58/3/248.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1991 May 01; 58
AB  - Carney’s complex is characterized by cardiac and cutaneous myxomas, mammary myxoid fibroadenomas, spotty mucocutaneous pigmentation, primary pigmented adrenocortical disease, large-cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumors of the testis, growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenomas, and psammomatous melanotic schwannomas. We present an illustrative case of Carney’s complex in a 26-year-old woman who at age 20 underwent bilateral adrenalectomy for Cushing’s syndrome. Six years later, she suffered multiple central nervous system embolic episodes secondary to three cardiac myxomas, which led to her death. Appropriate evaluation and management of patients with Carney’s complex is outlined.