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To the Editor: Veugelers et al. (July 29 issue)¹ report on patients with the trismus–pseudocamptodactyly syndrome as having a "Carney complex variant." Among more than 500 patients with the Carney complex in our database, there are none with the trismus–pseudocamptodactyly syndrome.^2,3

In our analysis of patients reported to have the trismus–pseudocamptodactyly syndrome, we identified several with freckling. These patients appeared to have a familial disorder at variance with the Carney complex — not a simple Carney complex variant. The dictionary definition of variant is "varying usually slightly from the standard form." By contrast, patients with the trismus–pseudo-camptodactyly syndrome have none . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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