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MediSan 2016; 20 (05)

Adrenal lipoma in a woman

Bell HYM

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 668-672
PDF size: 230.19 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The case report of a 51 years clinically asymptomatic woman who was referred to the Endocrinology Service of “Dr. Federico Bolaños Moreira” Hospital in Milagro city, Guayas, Ecuador, is presented, due to a malignancy in the right adrenal gland found by chance during a computerized axial tomography study in her abdomen. The complementary and imaging tests were repeated, and these last ones revealed the presence of a neoplastic mass mainly fatty. The patient underwent a laparotomy and the malignancy was removed consisting in an adrenal lipoma, as shown by the histopathological study; at present she has no clinical incidence.


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