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A Rare Presentation of Adrenocortical Carcinoma
An adrenal incidentaloma is a mass found incidentally on radiological imaging performed for other reasons. The prevalence of these incidentalomas increases with age, and they all must be evaluated to determine if they are benign or malignant and if they are functioning or non-functioning. A 71-year-...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8457308/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34584815 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18171 |
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author | Janquli, Mohammed Chapman, Lucy Brassill, Mary Jane |
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description | An adrenal incidentaloma is a mass found incidentally on radiological imaging performed for other reasons. The prevalence of these incidentalomas increases with age, and they all must be evaluated to determine if they are benign or malignant and if they are functioning or non-functioning. A 71-year-old female presented with sub-acute bilateral lower limb pitting edema and dyspnoea. Imaging showed an 8 cm smoothly defined heterogeneous right adrenal mass and a number of low attenuation lesions throughout the liver. This case report describes a rare presentation of adrenocortical carcinoma due to an adrenal incidentaloma identified on imaging in a patient presenting with bilateral lower limb edema. The laboratory and imaging evaluation of these incidentalomas are also discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-84573082021-09-27 A Rare Presentation of Adrenocortical Carcinoma Janquli, Mohammed Chapman, Lucy Brassill, Mary Jane Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism An adrenal incidentaloma is a mass found incidentally on radiological imaging performed for other reasons. The prevalence of these incidentalomas increases with age, and they all must be evaluated to determine if they are benign or malignant and if they are functioning or non-functioning. A 71-year-old female presented with sub-acute bilateral lower limb pitting edema and dyspnoea. Imaging showed an 8 cm smoothly defined heterogeneous right adrenal mass and a number of low attenuation lesions throughout the liver. This case report describes a rare presentation of adrenocortical carcinoma due to an adrenal incidentaloma identified on imaging in a patient presenting with bilateral lower limb edema. The laboratory and imaging evaluation of these incidentalomas are also discussed. Cureus 2021-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8457308/ /pubmed/34584815 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18171 Text en Copyright © 2021, Janquli et al. https://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. |
spellingShingle | Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Janquli, Mohammed Chapman, Lucy Brassill, Mary Jane A Rare Presentation of Adrenocortical Carcinoma |
title | A Rare Presentation of Adrenocortical Carcinoma |
title_full | A Rare Presentation of Adrenocortical Carcinoma |
title_fullStr | A Rare Presentation of Adrenocortical Carcinoma |
title_full_unstemmed | A Rare Presentation of Adrenocortical Carcinoma |
title_short | A Rare Presentation of Adrenocortical Carcinoma |
title_sort | rare presentation of adrenocortical carcinoma |
topic | Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8457308/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34584815 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18171 |
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