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An Unexpected Case Report of Adrenal Lymphangioma: Mimicking Metastatic Tumor on Imaging in a Patient With Pancreatic Cancer
Adrenal lymphangioma is a very rare benign lesion worldwide and remains challenging for early diagnosis, especially when the patient has some complicated clinical disease. This is an unusual case of a 68-year-old man who was admitted to our hospital with a history of pancreatic tumor. Computed tomog...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7815587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33488523 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2020.610744 |
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author | Wan, Shang Liu, Xijiao Tian, Bole Cao, Dan Li, Mao He, Yuhao Song, Bin |
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description | Adrenal lymphangioma is a very rare benign lesion worldwide and remains challenging for early diagnosis, especially when the patient has some complicated clinical disease. This is an unusual case of a 68-year-old man who was admitted to our hospital with a history of pancreatic tumor. Computed tomography (CT) images and subsequent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a mass located in the left adrenal gland, presenting a similar enhancement pattern of the pancreatic tumor, and according to the imaging features, the patient was suspected to have an adrenal metastatic tumor originating from the pancreatic tumor. The patient underwent a surgical resection of the pancreatic tumor and the left adrenal gland. The pathologic diagnosis proved to be lymphangioma deriving from the left adrenal gland. This is the first report presenting an atypical adrenal lymphangioma mimicking a metastatic tumor of pancreatic origin, which might be suggestive in the diagnosis of adrenal lesions and the subsequent clinical treatment, especially when patient has a particular medical history. As we know, imaging examination is helpful for accurate preoperative diagnosis; however, the diagnosis of malignant tumor solely based on imaging procedures should be made cautiously by radiologists. |
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spelling | pubmed-78155872021-01-21 An Unexpected Case Report of Adrenal Lymphangioma: Mimicking Metastatic Tumor on Imaging in a Patient With Pancreatic Cancer Wan, Shang Liu, Xijiao Tian, Bole Cao, Dan Li, Mao He, Yuhao Song, Bin Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) Endocrinology Adrenal lymphangioma is a very rare benign lesion worldwide and remains challenging for early diagnosis, especially when the patient has some complicated clinical disease. This is an unusual case of a 68-year-old man who was admitted to our hospital with a history of pancreatic tumor. Computed tomography (CT) images and subsequent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a mass located in the left adrenal gland, presenting a similar enhancement pattern of the pancreatic tumor, and according to the imaging features, the patient was suspected to have an adrenal metastatic tumor originating from the pancreatic tumor. The patient underwent a surgical resection of the pancreatic tumor and the left adrenal gland. The pathologic diagnosis proved to be lymphangioma deriving from the left adrenal gland. This is the first report presenting an atypical adrenal lymphangioma mimicking a metastatic tumor of pancreatic origin, which might be suggestive in the diagnosis of adrenal lesions and the subsequent clinical treatment, especially when patient has a particular medical history. As we know, imaging examination is helpful for accurate preoperative diagnosis; however, the diagnosis of malignant tumor solely based on imaging procedures should be made cautiously by radiologists. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7815587/ /pubmed/33488523 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2020.610744 Text en Copyright © 2021 Wan, Liu, Tian, Cao, Li, He and Song http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Endocrinology Wan, Shang Liu, Xijiao Tian, Bole Cao, Dan Li, Mao He, Yuhao Song, Bin An Unexpected Case Report of Adrenal Lymphangioma: Mimicking Metastatic Tumor on Imaging in a Patient With Pancreatic Cancer |
title | An Unexpected Case Report of Adrenal Lymphangioma: Mimicking Metastatic Tumor on Imaging in a Patient With Pancreatic Cancer |
title_full | An Unexpected Case Report of Adrenal Lymphangioma: Mimicking Metastatic Tumor on Imaging in a Patient With Pancreatic Cancer |
title_fullStr | An Unexpected Case Report of Adrenal Lymphangioma: Mimicking Metastatic Tumor on Imaging in a Patient With Pancreatic Cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | An Unexpected Case Report of Adrenal Lymphangioma: Mimicking Metastatic Tumor on Imaging in a Patient With Pancreatic Cancer |
title_short | An Unexpected Case Report of Adrenal Lymphangioma: Mimicking Metastatic Tumor on Imaging in a Patient With Pancreatic Cancer |
title_sort | unexpected case report of adrenal lymphangioma: mimicking metastatic tumor on imaging in a patient with pancreatic cancer |
topic | Endocrinology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7815587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33488523 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2020.610744 |
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