Metastatic adenocarcinoma within a functioning adrenal adenoma: a case report

We present the case of a 54-year-old woman who underwent right adrenalectomy for palliation of Cushing’s symptoms. She had recently been diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. Pathologic findings revealed a 5 cm adrenal adenoma with a metastatic adenocarcinoma deposit. The occurrence of tumor-to-tumor...

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Autores principales: Martin, Jeremiah T, Alkhoury, Fuad, Helton, Scott, Fiedler, Paul, Sakharova, Olga, Yood, Steven
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830028
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7965
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author Martin, Jeremiah T
Alkhoury, Fuad
Helton, Scott
Fiedler, Paul
Sakharova, Olga
Yood, Steven
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Alkhoury, Fuad
Helton, Scott
Fiedler, Paul
Sakharova, Olga
Yood, Steven
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description We present the case of a 54-year-old woman who underwent right adrenalectomy for palliation of Cushing’s symptoms. She had recently been diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. Pathologic findings revealed a 5 cm adrenal adenoma with a metastatic adenocarcinoma deposit. The occurrence of tumor-to-tumor metastasis is rare, and the finding of a metastasis within a functional adrenal adenoma exceptionally so. Previously reported incidences of this finding in patients with lung cancer range from 0.14% to 0.63%. We review the literature regarding this unusual finding.
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spelling pubmed-27401352009-10-14 Metastatic adenocarcinoma within a functioning adrenal adenoma: a case report Martin, Jeremiah T Alkhoury, Fuad Helton, Scott Fiedler, Paul Sakharova, Olga Yood, Steven Cases J Case report We present the case of a 54-year-old woman who underwent right adrenalectomy for palliation of Cushing’s symptoms. She had recently been diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. Pathologic findings revealed a 5 cm adrenal adenoma with a metastatic adenocarcinoma deposit. The occurrence of tumor-to-tumor metastasis is rare, and the finding of a metastasis within a functional adrenal adenoma exceptionally so. Previously reported incidences of this finding in patients with lung cancer range from 0.14% to 0.63%. We review the literature regarding this unusual finding. Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2740135/ /pubmed/19830028 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7965 Text en © 2009 Martin et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Martin, Jeremiah T
Alkhoury, Fuad
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Fiedler, Paul
Sakharova, Olga
Yood, Steven
Metastatic adenocarcinoma within a functioning adrenal adenoma: a case report
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title_full Metastatic adenocarcinoma within a functioning adrenal adenoma: a case report
title_fullStr Metastatic adenocarcinoma within a functioning adrenal adenoma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic adenocarcinoma within a functioning adrenal adenoma: a case report
title_short Metastatic adenocarcinoma within a functioning adrenal adenoma: a case report
title_sort metastatic adenocarcinoma within a functioning adrenal adenoma: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830028
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7965
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