Corticomedullary Mixed Adrenal Tumor: Case Report and Literature Review

Corticomedullary mixed adrenal tumor: case report and literature review.

We report a 66-year-old woman with a mixed corticomedullary tumor of the left adrenal gland. The patient was found to harbor an adrenal incidentaloma while investigated for a spigelian hernia. Due to the atypical radiological features and the relatively large size of the adrenal lesion she underwent a left adrenalectomy following endocrine testing to exclude a functional lesion. Subclinical Cus...

TUMOR ASSOCIATED OSTEOMALACIA IN NEUROFIBROMATOSIS: CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW

The association of osteomalacia with neurofibromatosis is a very rare entity. Here a 34 year old man, a known case of neurofibromatosis, is reported who presented with bone pain, hypophosphatemia, rena] phosphorus wasting, multiple Looser's pseudofractures, and low bone density. Treatment with high dose calcitriol and phosphate resulted in temporary treatment. Permanent cure was achieved a...

Corticomedullary mixed tumour resembling a small adrenal gland-involvement of cancer stem cells: case report

BACKGROUND Adrenal corticomedullary mixed tumours are very rare. Its mechanism is rarely reported. Here we report the first case of a corticomedullary mixed tumour resembling a "small adrenal gland" with distinct arrangement of the cortical and medullary layers. We further hypothesize regarding the tumorigenic mechanism of this tumour. CASE PRESENTATION A 58-year man had been diagnosed with d...

Precocious Puberty Associated with an Adrenal Tumor: A case report

Adrenocortical tumors (ACTs) are extremely rare in infants. Pediatric ACTs are therapeutic and diagnostic challenge because histological criteria for distinguishing benign from malignant tumors seen in adults are not always reliable in children .The aim of this report was to present clinical features, hormonal profile, and histopathological characteristics of an infant with Adrenal tumors. A...

Askin tumor: Case report and literature review