Adrenal myelolipoma a rare benign tumour managed laparoscopically: Report of two cases

Adrenal Myelolipoma is a rare benign neoplasm composed of mature adipose tissue and a variable amount of haemopoietic elements. Most lesions are small and asymptomatic, discovered incidentally during autopsy or on imaging studies performed for other reasons. Two cases of myelolipoma are presented he...

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Autores principales: Al Harthi, Bandar, Riaz, Muhammad M, Al Khalaf, Amal H, Al Zoum, Mohammad, Al Shakweer, Wafa
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Unusual Case
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20407573
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.59312
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author Al Harthi, Bandar
Riaz, Muhammad M
Al Khalaf, Amal H
Al Zoum, Mohammad
Al Shakweer, Wafa
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description Adrenal Myelolipoma is a rare benign neoplasm composed of mature adipose tissue and a variable amount of haemopoietic elements. Most lesions are small and asymptomatic, discovered incidentally during autopsy or on imaging studies performed for other reasons. Two cases of myelolipoma are presented here, where the tumours were hormonally inactive, but presented with abdominal symptoms and were managed by laparoscopic adrenalectomy.
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spelling pubmed-28431282010-03-26 Adrenal myelolipoma a rare benign tumour managed laparoscopically: Report of two cases Al Harthi, Bandar Riaz, Muhammad M Al Khalaf, Amal H Al Zoum, Mohammad Al Shakweer, Wafa J Minim Access Surg Unusual Case Adrenal Myelolipoma is a rare benign neoplasm composed of mature adipose tissue and a variable amount of haemopoietic elements. Most lesions are small and asymptomatic, discovered incidentally during autopsy or on imaging studies performed for other reasons. Two cases of myelolipoma are presented here, where the tumours were hormonally inactive, but presented with abdominal symptoms and were managed by laparoscopic adrenalectomy. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2843128/ /pubmed/20407573 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.59312 Text en © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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Al Harthi, Bandar
Riaz, Muhammad M
Al Khalaf, Amal H
Al Zoum, Mohammad
Al Shakweer, Wafa
Adrenal myelolipoma a rare benign tumour managed laparoscopically: Report of two cases
title Adrenal myelolipoma a rare benign tumour managed laparoscopically: Report of two cases
title_full Adrenal myelolipoma a rare benign tumour managed laparoscopically: Report of two cases
title_fullStr Adrenal myelolipoma a rare benign tumour managed laparoscopically: Report of two cases
title_full_unstemmed Adrenal myelolipoma a rare benign tumour managed laparoscopically: Report of two cases
title_short Adrenal myelolipoma a rare benign tumour managed laparoscopically: Report of two cases
title_sort adrenal myelolipoma a rare benign tumour managed laparoscopically: report of two cases
topic Unusual Case
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20407573
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.59312
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