Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Adrenal Gland

We report a rare case of a primary leiomyosarcoma of the adrenal gland. A 73-year-old woman presented with an inferior vena cava syndrome. MR imaging was suggestive of a large tumour originating from the right adrenal gland. Angiography revealed a tumour vascularised by the right adrenal artery. At...

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Autores principales: Etten, Boudewijn van, van Ijken, Marc G. A., Mooi, Wolter J., Oudkerk, Matthijs, van Geel, Albertus N.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2001
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18521310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1357714X01000184
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author Etten, Boudewijn van
van Ijken, Marc G. A.
Mooi, Wolter J.
Oudkerk, Matthijs
van Geel, Albertus N.
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van Ijken, Marc G. A.
Mooi, Wolter J.
Oudkerk, Matthijs
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description We report a rare case of a primary leiomyosarcoma of the adrenal gland. A 73-year-old woman presented with an inferior vena cava syndrome. MR imaging was suggestive of a large tumour originating from the right adrenal gland. Angiography revealed a tumour vascularised by the right adrenal artery. At explorative laparotomy a tumour of 27 cm in diameter was found which was completely fixed to the liver; the tumour was therefore considered unresectable. As a consequence of the mechanical problems caused by this large tumour, the patient died 3 weeks after the operation. Autopsy revealed no distant metastases or other primary tumour site.
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spelling pubmed-23954562008-06-02 Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Adrenal Gland Etten, Boudewijn van van Ijken, Marc G. A. Mooi, Wolter J. Oudkerk, Matthijs van Geel, Albertus N. Sarcoma Research Article We report a rare case of a primary leiomyosarcoma of the adrenal gland. A 73-year-old woman presented with an inferior vena cava syndrome. MR imaging was suggestive of a large tumour originating from the right adrenal gland. Angiography revealed a tumour vascularised by the right adrenal artery. At explorative laparotomy a tumour of 27 cm in diameter was found which was completely fixed to the liver; the tumour was therefore considered unresectable. As a consequence of the mechanical problems caused by this large tumour, the patient died 3 weeks after the operation. Autopsy revealed no distant metastases or other primary tumour site. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2001-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2395456/ /pubmed/18521310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1357714X01000184 Text en Copyright © 2001 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Etten, Boudewijn van
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Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Adrenal Gland
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title_full Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Adrenal Gland
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title_short Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Adrenal Gland
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395456/
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