Very few cases of pheochromocytoma in functional accessory adrenal glands have been documented in literature. We present a twenty-four year old Nigerian female who presented with pheochromocytoma. Investigations revealed a suprarenal mass, which was diagnosed as an accessory gland adrenal tumour at surgery. This shows that accessory adrenal glands can be a basis for development of pheochromocyt...

Histoplasmosis infection is endemic in Asia and disseminated histoplasmosis (DH) is one form of its presentation (Benevides et al., 2007[1]). DH commonly affects both adrenal glands. We describe a case of disseminated histoplasmosis complicated with hypercalcaemia in a 75-year-old immunosuppressed patient who presented with bilateral adrenal masses. The fine needle aspiration cytology of the ad...

OBJECTIVE To report an unusual involvement of focal distal muscles but not proximal muscles in a patient with hypokalemic periodic paralysis (hypoPP). CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A middle-aged woman presented with episodic weakness of the bilateral thumbs lasting for 2 years. Hypokalemia and a left adrenal mass were subsequently found. Her weakness subsided after surgical removal o...

myelolipoma, a rare benign non-functioning neoplasm, is composed of mature adipose tissue and bone marrow elements. its most common location is adrenal gland; however, extra-adrenal cases have been also reported. it is found in only 0.2% of all autopsies; 96% of the reported cases were detected on postmortem examination. the surgical symptomatic cases having been reported so far are few. in thi...

BACKGROUND We aimed to assess the usefulness of pre-contrast Hounsfield unit (HU) and mass size on computed tomography to differentiate adrenal mass found incidentally in oncologic patients. METHODS From 2000 to 2012, 131 oncologic patients with adrenal incidentaloma were reviewed retrospectively. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were applied to determine the optimal cut-off val...

We present an intriguing case of adrenal myelolipomata occurring within an adrenocortical adenoma in concert with an ipsilateral clear cell renal cell carcinoma. A 50-year-old female presented with dull right flank pain and hematuria. Computed tomography indicated a 2.5 cm right renal mass as well as a 5 cm right adrenal mass. Both masses were surgically resected concurrently. Histology of the ...

Hannah-Shmouni F, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220820 Description A 70-year-old woman with controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension presented for evaluation of chronic abdominal discomfort. An incidental 3.2×3.5×3 cm left adrenal mass was identified on CT. Physical examination revealed obesity stage 2 without a Cushingoid appearance and controlled hypertension with...

summary: pheochromocytoma is an adrenal tumor characterized by symptoms of hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and tachycardia .in one third of patients, the tumor is discovered incidentally during radiological evaluation of the abdomen. in this article a case of bilateral pheochromocytoma is reported. the patient, a twelve years old boy, referred with complaints of headache, flushing, ...