Multiple Pulmonary Chondromas in a Young Female Patient: A Component of Carney Triad

Chondromas of the lung are rare benign tumors, and fewer than 100 cases with multiple chondromas have been reported since Bateson1 reported the first case. In 1977, J. Aidan Carney from the Mayo Clinic described pulmonary chondroma associated with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) and extraadrenal paraganglioma as a syndrome, which was subsequently called the Carney triad.2 Sporadic case reports and a recent analysis demonstrated that the chondromas in the Carney triad usually occur in young women and are multiple, small, peripheral and not endobronchial, and commonly calcified.