Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour arising in the adrenal gland: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour arising in the adrenal gland is exceptional. As far as we are aware, there have been only three previous reports in the literature. We report a fourth case. CASE PRESENTATION: A 29-year-old Caucasian man presented with upper quadrant pain due to a 15...

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Autores principales: Tran-Dang, My-Anh, Banga, Neal, Khoo, Bernard, Bates, Alan WH
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4295263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25481247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-411
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour arising in the adrenal gland is exceptional. As far as we are aware, there have been only three previous reports in the literature. We report a fourth case. CASE PRESENTATION: A 29-year-old Caucasian man presented with upper quadrant pain due to a 15cm heterogenous adrenal mass that displaced his liver. He underwent an open right adrenalectomy. Histopathological examination showed the mass to be an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour, a histologically distinctive lesion composed of myofibroblasts, plasma cells, lymphocytes and histiocytes. Ten months later he is well with no sign of recurrence. CONCLUSIONS: The lesion was indistinguishable on imaging from an adrenal cortical tumour. Surgical treatment is the same but inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour carries a favourable prognosis.

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