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Respiratory symptoms in a boy revealing Carney triad.

Delemarre L, Aronson D, van Rijn R, Bras H, Arets B, Verschuur A

Department of Pediatric Oncology, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The association of gastrointestinal stromal cell tumor (GIST), paraganglioma, and pulmonary chondroma is known as the Carney triad, occurring predominantly in young adult females. We present the case of a 14-year-old male with respiratory symptoms resulting in the diagnosis Carney triad.

Published 12 December 2007 in Pediatr Blood Cancer, 50(2): 399-401.
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