Adrenal Schwannoma: A Very Rare Cause of Adrenal Incidentaloma
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A Rare Adrenal Incidentaloma: Adrenal Schwannoma
Adrenal schwannoma is an extremely uncommon cause of incidentaloma. It originates from neural sheath Schwann cells of the adrenal gland. We report the case of a left adrenal schwannoma incidentally discovered in a 32-year-old woman during examination of bloated feeling and stomach ache. The patient was incidentally found to have a left adrenal mass of 9 cm on abdominal ultrasonography. Computed...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1301-2193
DOI: 10.4274/tjem.2804