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Table 1 Revised PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome clinical diagnostic criteria

From: A progressive and refractory case of breast cancer with Cowden syndrome

Major Criteria

Minor Criteria

Breast Cancer

Autism spectrum disorder

Endometrial cancer (epithelial)

Colon cancer

Thyroid cancer (follicular)

Esophageal glycogenic acanthoses (>3)

GI hamartomas

Lipomas (>3)

 -including ganglioneuromas, but excluding hyperplastic polyps; >3

Intellectual disability (ie. IQ <75)

Lhermitte-Duclos disease (adult)

Renal cell carcinoma

Macrocephaly

Testicular lipomatosis

 ->97th percentile: 58cm for females, 60 cm for males

Thyroid cancer (papillary or follicular variant of papillary)

Macular pigmentation of the glans penis

Thyroid structural lesions (eg, adenoma, multinodular goiter)

Multiple mucocutaneous lesions (any of the following):

Vascular anomalies (including multiple intracranial developmental venous anomalies)

 -Multiple trichilemmomas (>3, at least one biopsy proven)

 -Acral keratoses (>3 palmoplantar keratic pits and/or acral hyperkeratotic papules)

 -Mucocutaneous neuromas (>3)

 -Oral papillomas (particularly on tongue and gingiva), multiple (>3) OR biopsy proven OR