Syndrome of myxomas, spotty skin pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity (Carney complex)

Genetic Counseling

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 287-290

  Legius, E ^a,c   Daenen, W ^a   Vandenbergh, V ^b   Verbeeck, G ^b   Bex, M ^a   Fryns, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Sint Elisabethziekenhuis Turnhout   (Belgium)

^c CENTER FOR HUMAN GENETICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carney complex; Infertility; Myxoma; Skin pigmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARNEY COMPLEX; CASE REPORT; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FACE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HUMAN; MACROORCHIDISM; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MELANOCYTE; MYXOMA; NEURILEMOMA; OLIGOSPERMIA; PIGMENT DISORDER;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; MYXOMA; NEURILEMMOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SYNDROME;

NOTOLABRUS CELIDOTUS;

EID: 0032418101     PISSN: 10158146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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