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

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......lipomatous metaplasia of an adrenocortical carcinoma. The patient was a 38...revealed the presence of a left adrenal tumor, and adrenalectomy...tumor was diagnosed as adrenocortical carcinoma. The stroma accumulated...Findings The resected left adrenal gland weighed 380 ...

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

Journal of Applied Research;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Adrenocortical carcinomas are rare tumors...found to have a metastatic adrenocortical carcinoma. Survival with adrenocortical carcinoma is poor and considerable...metastatic. KEY WORDS: adrenocortical carcinoma, Cushing's syndrome, hirsutism...presence of multiple small ...

Clinical features and prognostic factors associated with adrenocortical...

The American Surgeon;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ 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...

Adrenocortical Carcinoma: A Single Institution Experience

The American Surgeon;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ 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...

Accumulation of iodine-131-iodocholesterol in renal cell carcinoma adrenal...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......radioactivity was shown in the vicinity of the left adrenal gland. This radioactivity persisted...adrenal adenoma tissue coexisted. The left adrenal gland was also resected along with the...as right adrenocortical adenoma with left adrenal suppression. The tumor (3 x 3 cm, 8...

Cystic Adrenal Lymphangioma

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......resonance imaging confirmed the finding of a left adrenal cyst. The patient was scheduled for...Intraoperatively, a 3.8-cm cystic lesion from the left adrenal gland, closely associated with the tail...It was resected with a portion of the left adrenal gland. Macroscopically, the ...

46,XY agonadism associated with adrenal adenoma/myelolipoma: Report of a...

Gynecological Endocrinology;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......agonadism who also presented a left adrenal adenoma/myelolipoma, an association...revealed a 7 x 7 cm mass on the left adrenal gland. The patient underwent...laparotomy, which confirmed the left adrenal tumor and showed no gonadal...

A Woman With Abdominal Fullness

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......showed a well-demarcated, low-density, nonenhancing, 8 5-cm left adrenal mass with focal calcification. The mass appeared to be thinly...left adrenalectomy with preservation of the left kidney. The left adrenal gland consisted of a 170-g, 8.5 6.4 4.0-cm, encapsulated...

Broad complex tachycardia caused by adrenal tumour and atrial septal...

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......orally. A CT scan of his abdomen showed a left adrenal mass measuring 26 x 27 mm. MRI scan...Elevated catecholamine levels in the left adrenal venous blood [Table 1], but further...adrenalectomy was performed and a nodular left adrenal mass measuring 32x24x20 mm (weight 10...

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

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences;  November 1, 2005 ;     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...

Pathologic Quiz Case: A 33-Year-Old Man With an Incidentally Found Left...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...A 33 year-old man presented with a left adrenal mass that was found during a workup...tomographic scan revealed a small mass in the left adrenal gland (Figure, A). Under the clinical...tumor size, 3.6 cm). Involvement of the left adrenal gland was slightly more common (6 cases...

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

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ 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...

Adrenal incidentalomas: 'the rule of four'

Clinical Medicine;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ 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...

BUNNING RECOVERING.(NEWS)(Brief Article)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  August 18, 2000 ;     57 words ......gallbladder surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Doctors removed Bunning's gallbladder and a benign tumor on his left adrenal gland on Tuesday. He is expected to recover fully and is planning to return to his full senate duties when Congress resumes...

Rapid Cortisol Assay during Adrenal Vein Sampling in Patients with Primary...

Clinical Chemistry;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......cava as well as from right and left adrenal veins. Results: Cortisol concentrations...the adequacy of the cannulation. Left adrenal vein catheterization is relatively easy to perform because the left adrenal vein feeds directly into the left...