Feminizing Adrenocortical Carcinoma with Distant Metastases: Can Surgery be Considered?

Functioning adrenocortical carcinomas are rare diseases with dismal prognosis. A 41-year-old man presenting with gynecomastia had a giant feminizing adrenocortical carcinoma at stage IV. Although surgical resection was controversial, we removed the primary tumor to reduce the mass effects. He lived...

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Autores principales: Fancellu, Alessandro, Pinna, Antonio, Porcu, Alberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4202184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25332762
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2014.651
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author Fancellu, Alessandro
Pinna, Antonio
Porcu, Alberto
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description Functioning adrenocortical carcinomas are rare diseases with dismal prognosis. A 41-year-old man presenting with gynecomastia had a giant feminizing adrenocortical carcinoma at stage IV. Although surgical resection was controversial, we removed the primary tumor to reduce the mass effects. He lived for 12 months with an acceptable quality of life. Gynecomastia may be the first sign of feminizing adrenal malignancies. Surgery may ameliorate the quality of life in selected patients with metastatic disease.
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spelling pubmed-42021842014-10-20 Feminizing Adrenocortical Carcinoma with Distant Metastases: Can Surgery be Considered? Fancellu, Alessandro Pinna, Antonio Porcu, Alberto Clin Pract Case Report Functioning adrenocortical carcinomas are rare diseases with dismal prognosis. A 41-year-old man presenting with gynecomastia had a giant feminizing adrenocortical carcinoma at stage IV. Although surgical resection was controversial, we removed the primary tumor to reduce the mass effects. He lived for 12 months with an acceptable quality of life. Gynecomastia may be the first sign of feminizing adrenal malignancies. Surgery may ameliorate the quality of life in selected patients with metastatic disease. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4202184/ /pubmed/25332762 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2014.651 Text en ©Copyright A. Fancellu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BYNC 3.0)
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Feminizing Adrenocortical Carcinoma with Distant Metastases: Can Surgery be Considered?
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title_full Feminizing Adrenocortical Carcinoma with Distant Metastases: Can Surgery be Considered?
title_fullStr Feminizing Adrenocortical Carcinoma with Distant Metastases: Can Surgery be Considered?
title_full_unstemmed Feminizing Adrenocortical Carcinoma with Distant Metastases: Can Surgery be Considered?
title_short Feminizing Adrenocortical Carcinoma with Distant Metastases: Can Surgery be Considered?
title_sort feminizing adrenocortical carcinoma with distant metastases: can surgery be considered?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4202184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25332762
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2014.651
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