TY - JOUR T1 - Evaluation and management of Carney’s complex: an illustrative case JF - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine JO - Cleve Clin J Med SP - 248 LP - 256 VL - 58 IS - 3 AU - Thomas M. Wallace AU - Howard S. Levin AU - Norman B. Ratliff AU - Robert E. Hobbs Y1 - 1991/05/01 UR - http://www.ccjm.org/content/58/3/248.abstract N2 - 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. ER -