Carney's triad: a 16-year follow-up

We report a female teenager who presented with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach and a paraganglioneuroma. She later developed a pulmonary chondroma, fulfilling the requirements of Carney's triad. This patient demonstrates the course of the disease, which included severe emotional symptoms. She died, at 30 years of age, 16 years after the onset of disease, riddled with metastases. Many patients with Carney's triad survive for many years, but we can not predict the prognosis in any patient. During her lifetime, the patient had considerable emotional suffering, perhaps because of her disease.