background: adrenal hematoma is a very rare acquired cause of neonatal hypertension. in this study, we report a case of neonatal hypertension associated with adrenal hematoma. a male neonate was immediately transferred to our neonatal intensive care unit after delivery due to meconium aspiration. he needed to be on mechanical ventilation support. during his hospital stay, hospital records showe...

introduction extramedullary hematopoiesis in the kidney and adrenal are rarely reported in medical literature and are usually found as incidentaloma. it usually occurs in patients with hematologic disorder such as thalassemia. case presentation the patient was a 23-year-old iranian man with beta thalassemia who was admitted with a suprarenal mass. adrenal mass was detected by ultrasonography an...

Neonatal adrenal hemorrhage presenting as an abdominal mass in the newborn is not uncommon. However, judging the nature of a suprarenal mass is sometimes difficult, especially when the structure is more complex with unusual clinical course. We report a male newborn with neonatal adrenal hemorrhage presenting as a multiloculated cystic mass. The margins between the mass and left kidney were indi...

1. When half of the total kidney, suprarenal, ovarian, or testicular mass is removed the rate of growth of the remaining half is independent of the rate of growth of the organ at the time of removal. 2. The removal of half of the prostate, or seminal vesicular tissue, or of one uterine horn is not followed by any appreciable growth of the part that remains. 3. The rate of restoration of renal, ...

Variation arterial anatomy of suprarenal gland is significant for radiological and surgical interventions. Knowledge of anomalous suprarenal artery is required to avoid complications in surgical procedure. Arterial architecture of human suprarenal gland was studied in sixty-eight cadavers of adult male and female. In all cases, superior suprarenal artery on right side was normal in origin but o...

Neuroretinitis (NR) is an inflammatory disorder characterized by optic disc edema and subsequent formation of a macular star. We present a case of a 33 year old woman patient admitted for a progressive bilateral visual loss since two weeks. Fundus examination showed bilateral stellate neuroretinitis. Physical examination revealed a malignant hypertension of 210/150 mmHg. Magnetic resonance imag...

A 54-year-old woman had a mass located in the right suprarenal area. On imaging, this mass appeared to be infiltrating the inferior vena cava (IVC). Exploratory laparotomy was undertaken and excision of the tumour was done with the sleeve of the involved IVC. The mass turned out to be a perivascular epithelioid cell tumour (PEComa) on histopathological examination. This report describes previou...

A 10-year boy presented with a painless swelling in the left upper abdomen which gradually increased in size. Physical examination revealed a non tender, smooth, firm and an irregular mass in left hypochondrium extending to left lumbar region. On ultrasound, a hypoechoic lesion (14cm x10cm) in left suprarenal region was noted. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a large (18cm x 12cm) lobulated hy...