ALLMedicine™ Adrenal Carcinoma Center

Mar 9th, 2022 - Once malignancy tumors were diagnosed, the determination of tissue origin and tumor type is critical for clinical management. Although the significant advance in imaging techniques and histopathological approaches, the diagnosis remains challengin...

Mar 6th, 2022 - Alexander disease (AxD) is a neurodegenerative astrogliopathy caused by mutation in the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) gene. A 42-year-old Korean man presented with temporary gait disturbance and psychiatric regression after a minor head t...

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...

May 5th, 2021 - Background Perhaps no organ is better suited for laparoscopic surgery than the adrenal gland, by reason of its small size and its relatively difficult location in the retroperitoneum, which requires a large open excision for extraction. Since the ...

Feb 12th, 2021 - Background and introduction Metastasis is the main cause of death in cancer patients and often epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is advocated as the basic mechanism, although some limitations have been identified [1,2] Recently Fang and c...

Feb 12th, 2021 - Background and introduction Metastasis is the main cause of death in cancer patients and often epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is advocated as the basic mechanism, although some limitations have been identified [1,2] Recently Fang and c...

Oct 14th, 2020 - To date, the mechanisms underlying excess androgen production from steroid producing tissues have been unclear, but recent Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have provided additional data in this regard. Initial GWAS data in a Han Chinese popu...

Jan 18th, 2019 - One of the problems in managing adrenocortical tumors is the ability to distinguish between benign and malignant tumors, while needle biopsy is unable to distinguish between the two situations. Therefore, when imaging tests demonstrate a suspected...

Jul 3rd, 2019 - Adrenal tumors found incidentally on imaging tests that are either nonfunctioning or have mild cortisol excess are highly unlikely to grow significantly or to develop into cancer or Cushing syndrome, US and UK researchers have found. The results o...

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...