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Table 1 Diagnostic criteria for CNC (from [5] with written permission)

From: The complex of myxomas, spotty skin pigmentation and endocrine overactivity (Carney complex): imaging findings with clinical and pathological correlation

Diagnostic criteria for CNC

• Spotty skin pigmentation with a typical distribution (lips, conjunctiva and inner or outer canthi, vaginal and penile mucosa)

• Myxoma (cutaneous and mucosal)a

• Cardiac myxomaa

• Breast myxomatosisa or fat-suppressed MRI findings suggestive of this diagnosis

• PPNADa or paradoxical positive response of urinary glucocorticosteroids to dexamethasone administration during Liddle’s test

• Acromegaly due to GH-producing adenomaa

• LCCSCTa or characteristic calcification on testicular ultrasonography

• Thyroid carcinoma (at any age)a or multiple, hypoechoic nodules on thyroid ultrasonography in a prepubertal child

• Psammomatous melanotic schwannomaa

• Blue nevus, epithelioid blue nevus (multiple)a

• Breast ductal adenoma (multiple)a

• Osteochondromyxoma

Supplemental criteria:

1. Affected first-degree relative

2. Inactivating mutation of the PRKAR1A gene

  1. CNC Carney complex, PPNAD primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease, GH growth hormone, LCCSCT large-cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumour
  2. aHistological confirmation is needed