A Rare Cavernous Hemangioma of the Adrenal Gland
Adrenal cavernous hemangiomas are rare nonfunctioning benign tumors. This case report presents a patient with a huge nonfunctioning adrenal cavernous hemangioma presenting as an adrenal incidentaloma suspicious for adrenal myelolipoma. Although adrenal cavernous hemangiomas are rare, they should be...
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pubmed-46726522016-01-20 A Rare Cavernous Hemangioma of the Adrenal Gland Pang, Cheng Wu, Pengjie Zhu, Gang General Urology Adrenal cavernous hemangiomas are rare nonfunctioning benign tumors. This case report presents a patient with a huge nonfunctioning adrenal cavernous hemangioma presenting as an adrenal incidentaloma suspicious for adrenal myelolipoma. Although adrenal cavernous hemangiomas are rare, they should be considered as a part of the differential diagnosis of adrenal neoplasms. The proper treatment is surgical excision due the risk of spontaneous tumor rupture and the difficulty of ruling out malignancy. Elsevier 2015-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4672652/ /pubmed/26793524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2015.03.009 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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A Rare Cavernous Hemangioma of the Adrenal Gland |
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A Rare Cavernous Hemangioma of the Adrenal Gland |
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A Rare Cavernous Hemangioma of the Adrenal Gland |
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A Rare Cavernous Hemangioma of the Adrenal Gland |
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rare cavernous hemangioma of the adrenal gland |
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Adrenal cavernous hemangiomas are rare nonfunctioning benign tumors. This case report presents a patient with a huge nonfunctioning adrenal cavernous hemangioma presenting as an adrenal incidentaloma suspicious for adrenal myelolipoma. Although adrenal cavernous hemangiomas are rare, they should be considered as a part of the differential diagnosis of adrenal neoplasms. The proper treatment is surgical excision due the risk of spontaneous tumor rupture and the difficulty of ruling out malignancy. |
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