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Ovarian lesions in Carney complex: clinical genetics and possible predisposition to malignancy.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Nov 2000
Stratakis C A, Papageorgiou T, Premkumar A, Pack S, Kirschner L S, Taymans S E, Zhuang Z, Oelkers W H, Carney J A
Abstract excerpt
Carney complex (CNC) is a familial multiple neoplasia and lentiginosis syndrome (OMIM 160980, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim) with features overlapping those of other multiple endocrine neoplasias and hamartomatoses, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) in particular. Although a number of patients with CNC and ovarian tumors have been described in individual patient reports, it is unclear whether ovarian lesions...
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