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1: World J Surg Oncol. 2008 Jul 4;6:72.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma - an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature.

Zieker D, Königsrainer I, Miller S, Vogel U, Sotlar K, Steurer W, Königsrainer A, Lehmann TG.

Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Tuebingen, Germany. derek.zieker@med.uni-tuebingen.de

BACKGROUND: Extra-adrenal myelolipomas are rare benign tumours. Other soft tissue tumours such as well-differentiated liposarcomas appear morphological almost identical. Preoperative imaging and especially biopsy are important tools to diagnose these lesions. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a very seldom case of a simultaneous myelolipoma of the adrenal gland in association with an extra-adrenal myelolipoma in an 75-year-old man. With a review of the literature we describe and discuss the aetiology, differential diagnosis and treatment of patients with respect to adrenal and extra-adrenal lesions. CONCLUSION: The appearance of a simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma is a rare incident. We conclude that such lesions should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a fat-containing tumour in the retroperitoneal tissue/compartment.

PMID: 18601731 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC2474838