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Incomplete form of Carney’s triad: Clinical and morphologic analysis of a case in Mexico

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We report on the case of a 26-yr-old Mexican woman with a gastric stromal tumor associated with a carotid body paraganglioma who remained asymptomatic for 34 yr following partial gastric resection. She presented with a recurrent gastric stromal tumor and probable liver metastasis. She also had an ovarian serous cystadenoma and breast fibroadenoma. This case represents an incomplete form of Carney’s triad and demonstrates the usual indolent behavior of gastric stromal tumors associated with this condition.

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  1. Departments of Surgery, Oncology Hospital, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI. Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico

    Luis Krause-Sentíes MD

  2. Department of Pathology, Regional University Hospital “J.M. Cabral y Báez”, Santiago de los Caballeros City, Dominican Republic

    Clemencia M. Bencosme-Viñas MD

  3. Department of Pathology, Oncology Hospital, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS, Av. Cuauhtémoc No. 330, Col. Doctores 0627, México D.F., Mexico City

    Fernando A Candanedo-González MD & Héctor Santiago-Payán MD

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Candanedo-González, F.A., Krause-Sentíes, L., Bencosme-Viñas, C.M. et al. Incomplete form of Carney’s triad: Clinical and morphologic analysis of a case in Mexico. Endocr Pathol 11, 287–294 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1385/EP:11:3:287

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