Carney
nounEtymology * (carcinogenic disorder): Named after American pathologist John Aidan Carney
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Medicine, Pathology, Sciences A rare disorder characterized by increased risk of tumors, dark blotches on the skin, and endocrine overactivity.
- In male patients at risk for Carney complex testicular ultrasonography for the early detection of LCCSCT and associated testicular pathology is recommended.2003, Toren Finkel, J. Silvio Gutkind, Signal Transduction and Human Disease, →ISBN, page 217:
- The patient's mother has Carney syndrome, with lentigines, cardiac myxoma, fibroadenoma of the breast, and a fibroepithelial polyp of the external auditory canal.2004, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine:
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- Other diagnoses associated with catecholamine-secreting tumors that do not appear to be inherited are the Carney triad (gastric leiomyosarcoma, pulmonary chondroma, and extraadrenal catecholamine-secreting tumors), cholelithiasis, and renal artery stenosis.2012, Henry R. Black, William Elliott, Hypertension: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease E-Book, →ISBN:
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