The complex of myxomas, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity
JA Carney, H Gordon, PC Carpenter, BV Shenoy… - Medicine, 1985 - journals.lww.com
In 1984, we reported four Mayo Clinic patients with Cushing syndrome and an unusual
bilateral adrenal disorder to which we gave the descriptive title “primary pigmented nodular
adrenocortical disease”(31). A search of the literature had revealed 24 similar cases; in 3 of
these, the disorder was familial. In one family, initially reported in 1980 by Schweizer-
Cagianut et al., two siblings were af-fected: one sibling, who also had an eyelid “fibroma,”
became hemiparetic 4 years after adrenalectomy; the other was thought to have neurofibro …
bilateral adrenal disorder to which we gave the descriptive title “primary pigmented nodular
adrenocortical disease”(31). A search of the literature had revealed 24 similar cases; in 3 of
these, the disorder was familial. In one family, initially reported in 1980 by Schweizer-
Cagianut et al., two siblings were af-fected: one sibling, who also had an eyelid “fibroma,”
became hemiparetic 4 years after adrenalectomy; the other was thought to have neurofibro …