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Primary Adrenal Sarcomatoid Carcinoma

Adrenal sarcomatoid carcinomas are extremely rare tumors presenting with extensive locoregional spread at the time of diagnosis. Patients succumb to metastases within a couple of months. As a result, very few cases are reported in the literature until now. We present a case of a 62-year old female w...

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Autores principales: Shaikh, Aftab S., Bakhshi, Girish D., Khan, Arshad S., Jamadar, Nilofar M., Nirmala, Aravind Kotresh, Raza, Arif Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24847428
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2014.604
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Sumario:Adrenal sarcomatoid carcinomas are extremely rare tumors presenting with extensive locoregional spread at the time of diagnosis. Patients succumb to metastases within a couple of months. As a result, very few cases are reported in the literature until now. We present a case of a 62-year old female with non-functional sarcomatoid carcinoma of the right adrenal gland. There was no radiological evidence of locoregional metastases. Patient underwent right adrenalectomy. Follow up after 3 months showed para-aortic lymphadenopathy and similar left adrenal mass on computed tomography. Patient refused further treatment and succumbed to the disease. A brief case report with review of literature is presented.