An Incidental Finding of Extra-adrenal Myelolipoma in the Upper Abdominal Cavity Attached to Mesentery: A Rare Case

Myelolipoma are tumors of adrenal glands typically found in the adrenal gland, and are comprised of marrow elements and fat. We report a case of an extra adrenal myelolipoma in a 91-year-old patient, who presented to the emergency department with complaints of abdominal pain and shortness of breath....

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Autores principales: Abbas, Syed H, Goyal, Geetika, Yu, Kate, Loo, Abraham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6682341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31403017
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4830
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description Myelolipoma are tumors of adrenal glands typically found in the adrenal gland, and are comprised of marrow elements and fat. We report a case of an extra adrenal myelolipoma in a 91-year-old patient, who presented to the emergency department with complaints of abdominal pain and shortness of breath. A CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed a mixed attenuation soft tissue mass with admixed fat located within the mesentery inferior to the body of the stomach. A fine needle aspirate of the mass demonstrated a cellular aspirate with maturing trilineage hematopoiesis and mature adipocytes. This case is being presented due to the rarity of extra adrenal myelolipomas.
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spelling pubmed-66823412019-08-09 An Incidental Finding of Extra-adrenal Myelolipoma in the Upper Abdominal Cavity Attached to Mesentery: A Rare Case Abbas, Syed H Goyal, Geetika Yu, Kate Loo, Abraham Cureus Pathology Myelolipoma are tumors of adrenal glands typically found in the adrenal gland, and are comprised of marrow elements and fat. We report a case of an extra adrenal myelolipoma in a 91-year-old patient, who presented to the emergency department with complaints of abdominal pain and shortness of breath. A CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis revealed a mixed attenuation soft tissue mass with admixed fat located within the mesentery inferior to the body of the stomach. A fine needle aspirate of the mass demonstrated a cellular aspirate with maturing trilineage hematopoiesis and mature adipocytes. This case is being presented due to the rarity of extra adrenal myelolipomas. Cureus 2019-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6682341/ /pubmed/31403017 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4830 Text en Copyright © 2019, Abbas et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Abbas, Syed H
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An Incidental Finding of Extra-adrenal Myelolipoma in the Upper Abdominal Cavity Attached to Mesentery: A Rare Case
title An Incidental Finding of Extra-adrenal Myelolipoma in the Upper Abdominal Cavity Attached to Mesentery: A Rare Case
title_full An Incidental Finding of Extra-adrenal Myelolipoma in the Upper Abdominal Cavity Attached to Mesentery: A Rare Case
title_fullStr An Incidental Finding of Extra-adrenal Myelolipoma in the Upper Abdominal Cavity Attached to Mesentery: A Rare Case
title_full_unstemmed An Incidental Finding of Extra-adrenal Myelolipoma in the Upper Abdominal Cavity Attached to Mesentery: A Rare Case
title_short An Incidental Finding of Extra-adrenal Myelolipoma in the Upper Abdominal Cavity Attached to Mesentery: A Rare Case
title_sort incidental finding of extra-adrenal myelolipoma in the upper abdominal cavity attached to mesentery: a rare case
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6682341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31403017
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4830
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