ALLMedicine™ Adrenal Carcinoma Center

May 21st, 2021 - The adrenal glands are one of the most common sites of malignant tumor metastasis. However, metastatic adrenal carcinoma of unknown primary origin with localized adrenal gland involvement is an extremely rare condition. Herein, we reported two cas...

Dec 21st, 2019 - Extragonadal germ cell tumors are germ cell tumors with no evidence of a primary tumor within the gonads, most often located in the mediastinum or retroperitoneum. We present an extragonadal yolk sac tumor that presented as an adrenal carcinoma an...

Aug 24th, 2019 - A Man with a Clot on his Platelets: Adrenal Carcinoma and Dynamic Right Ventricular Inflow Obstruction.|2019|McClelland AF,Mandal AKJ,Zakharious F,Missouris CG,|diagnosis,diagnosis,therapeutic use,therapeutic use,diagnosis,drug therapy,pathology,

Apr 11th, 2018 - Cushing syndrome due to adrenal carcinoma.|2018|Huynh J,Aronowitz P,|

Sep 19th, 2017 - Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare endocrine malignancy and has a 5-year survival rate of <35%. ACC cells require cholesterol for steroid hormone production, and this requirement is met via expression on the cell surface of a high level of S...

Jun 6th, 2007 - Action Points Explain to interested patients that adrenocortical cancer is rare and has a very poor prognosis, even if surgery removes the cancer completely. Note that this retrospective study suggests that using Mitotane (Lysodren), which selecti...

May 5th, 2005 - Introduction Accessory spleen is a variation of spleen development.[1] The most common location of an accessory spleen is at the splenic hilum.[1,2,3] Wandering accessory spleens may mimic tumors, such as pancreatic tumor, adnexal tumor, abdominal...

May 5th, 2005 - Discussions There are variants of spleen development, such as splenic clefts, notches, lobulations, an accessory spleen, polysplenia, and wandering spleen.[1] When an accessory spleen wanders to another place, it may mimic some tumors. Adnexal tum...