Carney complex

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Carney complex (CNC), also known as LAMB syndrome and NAME syndrome is an autosomal dominant situation comprising myxomas of the heart and skin, hyperpigmentation of the pores and skin (lentiginosis), and endocrine overactivity and is awesome from Carney's triad. Approximately 7% of all cardiac myxomas are related to Carney complex. Patients with CNC increase boom hormone (GH)-producing pituitary tumors and in a few times these same tumors additionally secrete prolactin. There are however no isolated prolactinomas or every other sort of pituitary tumor. In a few patients with CNC, the pituitary gland is characterized via hyperplastic regions with the hyperplasia most probably previous the formation of GH-generating adenomas.