Introduction: Non-gestational, extragonadal choriocarcinoma is a rare clinical entity.
Presentation Of Case: Herein, we report a 56 year old woman who presented with an incidental adrenal mass and was diagnosed with a non-gestational choriocarcinoma of the adrenal gland as the sole site of disease.
Discussion: To our knowledge, this is the first case of an ectopic primary adrenal choriocarcinoma. A metastasis from a primary tumor that completely regressed or that could not be identified is an alternate explanation.
Conclusion: It should be recognized that choriocarcinoma can affect the adrenal gland and it should be considered as a rare cause for an adrenal incidentaloma.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4334997 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2014.12.018 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Surgical Management of Acute Appendicitis in a Patient with Diagnosed but "Unprepared" Pheochromocytoma: A Case Report.
Sisli Etfal Hastan Tip Bul
December 2024
Department of General Surgery, University of Health Sciences Türkiye, Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Pheochromocytoma is a rare tumor originating from the adrenal gland, characterized by the secretion of catecholamines. Due to the risk of hypertensive crises associated with catecholamine release, surgical procedures in pheochromocytoma patients are risky. In this case report, laparoscopic appendectomy for acute appendicitis in a patient who has pheochromocytoma will be presented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Addison's disease: looking to the past and the future].
Rev Med Liege
January 2025
Service d'Endocrinologie, CHU Liège, Belgique.
In 1849, Thomas Addison discovered alterations in the adrenal glands at autopsy of three patients who had died with idiopathic anemia. Struck by Addison's work, Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard demonstrated in 1851 that bilateral adrenalectomy in dogs was fatal. It was not until 1950 that the discovery of the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and their biological effects allowed Kendall, Reichstein and Hench to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFManaging Chyle Leakage Following Right Retroperitoneoscopic Adrenalectomy: A Case Study.
Am J Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Urology, Liaocheng Second People's Hospital, Liaocheng, Shandong, China.
BACKGROUND Surgery involving the right retroperitoneum can result in lymphatic (chylous) leakage from the cisterna chyli located anterior to the L1 and L2 vertebra or from lymph node dissection. This report describes a 46-year-old woman with retroperitoneal lymphatic (chylous) leak following right adrenalectomy for a nonfunctional adrenal adenoma. CASE REPORT A 46-year-old woman presented with a medical history of hypertension.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnalysis of Urinary Metanephrines Using Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry.
Methods Mol Biol
January 2025
Analytic Biochemistry, Calculi and Manual Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry, ARUP Laboratories, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Metanephrines (metanephrine [MN] and normetanephrine [NMN]) are O-methylated metabolites derived from the catecholamines, epinephrine, and norepinephrine, respectively. High concentrations of metanephrines have been observed in individuals with pheochromocytoma, a neuroendocrine tumor. Measurement of metanephrines in urine is used to screen for the tumor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCharacterization of adrenal glands on computed tomography with a 3D V-Net-based model.
Insights Imaging
January 2025
Department of Radiology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China.
Objectives: To evaluate the performance of a 3D V-Net-based segmentation model of adrenal lesions in characterizing adrenal glands as normal or abnormal.
Methods: A total of 1086 CT image series with focal adrenal lesions were retrospectively collected, annotated, and used for the training of the adrenal lesion segmentation model. The dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of the test set was used to evaluate the segmentation performance.
Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!