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Simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma – an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Extra-adrenal myelolipomas are rare benign tumours. Other soft tissue tumours such as well-differentiated liposarcomas appear morphological almost identical. Preoperative imaging and especially biopsy are important tools to diagnose these lesions. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a very seld...

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Autores principales: Zieker, Derek, Königsrainer, Ingmar, Miller, Stephan, Vogel, Ulrich, Sotlar, Karl, Steurer, Wolfgang, Königsrainer, Alfred, Lehmann, Thorsten G
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18601731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-72
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author Zieker, Derek
Königsrainer, Ingmar
Miller, Stephan
Vogel, Ulrich
Sotlar, Karl
Steurer, Wolfgang
Königsrainer, Alfred
Lehmann, Thorsten G
author_facet Zieker, Derek
Königsrainer, Ingmar
Miller, Stephan
Vogel, Ulrich
Sotlar, Karl
Steurer, Wolfgang
Königsrainer, Alfred
Lehmann, Thorsten G
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description BACKGROUND: Extra-adrenal myelolipomas are rare benign tumours. Other soft tissue tumours such as well-differentiated liposarcomas appear morphological almost identical. Preoperative imaging and especially biopsy are important tools to diagnose these lesions. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a very seldom case of a simultaneous myelolipoma of the adrenal gland in association with an extra-adrenal myelolipoma in an 75-year-old man. With a review of the literature we describe and discuss the aetiology, differential diagnosis and treatment of patients with respect to adrenal and extra-adrenal lesions. CONCLUSION: The appearance of a simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma is a rare incident. We conclude that such lesions should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a fat-containing tumour in the retroperitoneal tissue/compartment.
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spelling pubmed-24748382008-07-19 Simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma – an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature Zieker, Derek Königsrainer, Ingmar Miller, Stephan Vogel, Ulrich Sotlar, Karl Steurer, Wolfgang Königsrainer, Alfred Lehmann, Thorsten G World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Extra-adrenal myelolipomas are rare benign tumours. Other soft tissue tumours such as well-differentiated liposarcomas appear morphological almost identical. Preoperative imaging and especially biopsy are important tools to diagnose these lesions. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a very seldom case of a simultaneous myelolipoma of the adrenal gland in association with an extra-adrenal myelolipoma in an 75-year-old man. With a review of the literature we describe and discuss the aetiology, differential diagnosis and treatment of patients with respect to adrenal and extra-adrenal lesions. CONCLUSION: The appearance of a simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma is a rare incident. We conclude that such lesions should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a fat-containing tumour in the retroperitoneal tissue/compartment. BioMed Central 2008-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2474838/ /pubmed/18601731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-72 Text en Copyright © 2008 Zieker et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Zieker, Derek
Königsrainer, Ingmar
Miller, Stephan
Vogel, Ulrich
Sotlar, Karl
Steurer, Wolfgang
Königsrainer, Alfred
Lehmann, Thorsten G
Simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma – an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature
title Simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma – an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature
title_full Simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma – an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma – an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma – an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature
title_short Simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma – an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature
title_sort simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma – an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18601731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-72
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