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
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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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author Tran-Dang, My-Anh
Banga, Neal
Khoo, Bernard
Bates, Alan WH
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description 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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spelling pubmed-42952632015-01-16 Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour arising in the adrenal gland: a case report Tran-Dang, My-Anh Banga, Neal Khoo, Bernard Bates, Alan WH J Med Case Rep 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 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. BioMed Central 2014-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4295263/ /pubmed/25481247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-411 Text en © Tran-Dang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour arising in the adrenal gland: a case report
title_fullStr Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour arising in the adrenal gland: a case report
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title_short Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour arising in the adrenal gland: a case report
title_sort inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour arising in the adrenal gland: a case report
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url 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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