Clinical features and prognostic factors associated with adrenocortical...

The American Surgeon;  January 1, 2000 ;   Tritos, Nicholas A; Cushing, Gary W; Heatley, Gerald; Libertino, John A;   787 words ...Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare tumor associated...survival of patients with adrenocortical carcinoma and to identify relevant...histologically documented adrenocortical carcinoma were observed at the Lahey...

A case of myxoid adrenocortical carcinoma with extensive lipomatous...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  February 1, 2003 ;   Izumi, Miki; Serizawa, Hiromi; Iwaya, Keiichi; Takeda, Kazuhiro; Et al;   787 words ......extensive lipomatous metaplasia of an adrenocortical carcinoma. The patient was a 38-year-old...cytoplasm. The tumor was diagnosed as adrenocortical carcinoma. The stroma accumulated copious...change is a very rare phenomenon in adrenocortical carcinoma, and only 10 similar cases ...

Adrenocortical Carcinoma: A Single Institution Experience

The American Surgeon;  January 1, 2005 ;   Gomez-Rivera, Fernando; Medina-Franco, Heriberto; Arch-Ferrer, Jorge E; Heslin, Martin J;   787 words ...Adrenocortical carcinoma (ADCC) ranks among the least...invasion, and older age. ADRENOCORTICAL CARCINOMA (ADCC) is a rare malignant...been found in patients with adrenocortical carcinoma and sometimes it develops...

Adrenocortical Carcinoma Arising From a Long-standing Adrenal Mass

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  February 1, 2005 ;   Cofield, Kattron R III; Cantley, Larry K; Geisinger, Kim R; Zagoria, Ron J; Perrier, Nancy D;   787 words ...Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare tumor with a dismal...Biopsy findings confirmed adrenocortical carcinoma. We describe the presentation...2005;80(2):264-266 ACC = adrenocortical carcinoma; CT = computed tomography...

Myxoid adrenal cortical carcinoma - A rare variant of adrenocortical...

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences;  November 1, 2005 ;   Suresh, B; Kishore, T; Albert, A; Joy, A;   624 words ......a very rare phenomenon in adrenocortical carcinoma, and only 11 similar cases...recurrence and metastasis. Myxoid adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare variant of adrenocortical carcinoma. The presence of myxoid changes...

PET imaging of adrenal cortical tumors with the 11(beta)-hydroxylase...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  February 1, 2000 ;   Bergstrom, Mats; Juhlin, Claes; Bonasera, Thomas A; Sundin, Anders; Et al;   787 words ......adenoma (n = 6; 3 nonfunctioning), adrenocortical carcinoma (n = 2), and nodular hyperplasia...diameter, to exclude presence of adrenocortical carcinoma, an exceedingly rare tumor that...size (7). Moreover, because the adrenocortical carcinoma must have started as a smaller...

A woman with long-standing hypertension diagnosed with metastatic adrenal...

Journal of Applied Research;  September 1, 2007 ;   Alikhan, Mir A. Pikul, Frank J. Toth, Peter P.;   787 words ......was found to have a metastatic adrenocortical carcinoma. Survival with adrenocortical carcinoma is poor and considerable uncertainty...becomes metastatic. KEY WORDS: adrenocortical carcinoma, Cushing's syndrome, hirsutism...

Adrenal incidentalomas: 'the rule of four'

Clinical Medicine;  April 1, 2008 ;   Alexandraki, Krystallenia I; Grossman, Ashley B;   787 words ......enzyme succinic dehydrogenase. Adrenocortical carcinoma Adrenocortical carcinomas were...major predictors of malignancy. Adrenocortical carcinoma is however rare and usually has...median survival of 18 months.4,5,17 Adrenocortical carcinoma can be functional or non-functional...

Collapse of p53 into Clumps Might be Linked to Cancer.

PR Newswire;  December 1, 2005 ;     466 words ......to form is associated only with the pediatric cancer adrenocortical carcinoma (cancer of the outer layer of the adrenal gland), suggesting...finding only suggests a link between p53 clumps and adrenocortical carcinoma, mutations that disrupt various proteins have broader...

Pathologic quiz case: An adrenal mass in a 54-year-old man--Pathologic...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  July 1, 2003 ;   Stephany, Joshua D; Pearl, Gary S;   787 words ......adenoma (65%-88%) and, rarely, by an adrenocortical carcinoma. Patients are usually women in...a differential diagnosis of an adrenocortical carcinoma must be considered. It has a bimodal...mitoses also help differentiate adrenocortical carcinoma from adrenocortical adenoma.7...

PET/CT vs CT in Adrenocortical Carcinoma

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  February 1, 2006 ;   Anonymous;   207 words ......Institut Gustave Roussy (Villejuif, France) reported on a study comparing PET/CT and CT in diagnosis and prognosis of adrenocortical carcinoma. The study included 28 patients with adrenocortical cancer. Each underwent ^sup 18^F-FDG PET and thoraco-abdomino-pelvic...

Imaging of Adrenal Incidentalomas with PET Using ^sup 11^C-Metomidate and...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  June 1, 2004 ;   Minn, Heikki; Salonen, Anna; Friberg, Johan; Roivainen, Anne; Et al;   787 words ......nonsecretory adenoma (n = 5), adrenocortical carcinoma (n = 1), pheochromocytoma (n...uptake value (SUV), was found in adrenocortical carcinoma (SUV = 28.0), followed by active...whereas both pheochromocytomas and adrenocortical carcinoma showed slightly increased uptake...

Adrenal cortical carcinoma: A case of late pulmonary metastasis

Journal of the National Medical Association;  January 1, 2001 ;   Dang, Chat; Mohamed, Hezla; Mandal, Ashis; Salem, Frank;   787 words ......lung metastasis. (J Natl Med Assoc. 2001;93:37-39.) Adrenocortical carcinoma is uncommon, affecting two people per one million population...regression of pulmonary metastasis from nonfunctioning adrenocortical carcinoma after removal of the primary lesion.10 Our patient...

Yo adrenals! These tiny glands exert a huge influence on your dog and his...

Whole Dog Journal;  July 1, 2006 ;   Kidd, Randy;   787 words ......type of hormones originating from the adrenal cortex are the adrenal sex hormones. Secreted in relatively small amounts by the zona...include progesterone, estrogens, and androgens. The effect of the adrenal sex hormones is usually masked by

Myofibrosarcoma of the Adrenal Gland

The American Surgeon;  March 1, 2005 ;   McLaughlin, S A; Schmitt, T M; Huguet, K L; Menke, D M; Nguyen, J H;   787 words ......unrelated complaint. Although the majority of these are nonfunctional cortical adenomas, hormonally active tumors and adrenocortical carcinoma must also be considered in the differential diagnosis. Rarely, retroperitoneal tumors may mimic an adrenal mass. We...