Case Report with Review of the Literature: Uveal Melanoma in a Patient with Carney Complex - Another Rare Component of the Syndrome?

Abstract

A 74-year-old woman with Carney complex (CNC) and complaints of poor vision was found, on ophthalmic examination, to have a pigmented tumor involving the peripheral choroid and ciliary body in her right eye. The eye was enucleated and showed a ciliochoroidal melanoma with marked pleomorphism. The tumor did not recur or metastasize after almost 10 years of follow-up, and the patient died of unrelated causes. Molecular studies revealed a complex genome with multiple whole-chromosome losses including monosomy of chromosomes 1, 2 (including loss of CNC2at 2p16), 14, 17 (including loss of a copy of PRAKA1 at 17q24.2), 18, 19, 21, 22, and X. No monosomy 3 was observed. This is only the second case of uveal melanoma in a patient with CNC, raising the possibility that this might represent a rare component of this syndrome.