Malignant psammomatous melanotic schwannoma in a patient with Carney complex associated with a novel variant in the PRKAR1A gene.

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Carney complex (CNC) is an autosomal dominant multiple neoplasm syndrome, characterized by the presence of endocrine and non-endocrine tumors; it includes myxomas, lentigines and primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease, among other signs/symptoms. In CNC type 1, inactivating mutations of the PRKAR1A gene were identified as the main cause of the disease, although since 2015 variants in other genes,...

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