tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "A rare coexistence of adrenal cavernous hemangioma with extramedullar hemopoietic tissue: a case report and brief review of the literature"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: A rare coexistence of adrenal cavernous hemangioma with extramedullar hemopoietic tissue: a case report and brief review of the literature | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access A rare coexistence of adrenal cavernous hemangioma with extramedullar hemopoietic tissue a case report and brief review of the literature Nikolaos Arkadopoulos1 Maria Kyriazi1 Anneza I Yiallourou 1 Vaia K Stafyla1 Theodosios Theodosopoulos1 Nikolaos Dafnios1 Vassilis Smyrniotis1 and Agathi Kondi-Pafiti2 Address 12nd Department of Surgery Aretaieion Hospital Athens University School of Medicine Athens Greece and 2Department of Pathology Aretaieion Hospital Athens University School of Medicine Athens Greece Email Nikolaos Arkadopoulos - narkado@ Maria Kyriazi - mkyriazi@ Anneza I Yiallourou - annyiallo@ Vaia K Stafyla - vstafyla@ Theodosios Theodosopoulos - theodosios@ Nikolaos Dafnios - adaf86@ Vassilis Smyrniotis - vsmyrniotis@ Agathi Kondi-Pafiti - akondi@ Corresponding author Published 5 February 2009 Received 8 November 2008 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7 13 doi 1477-7819-7-13 Accepted 5 February 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 13 2009 Arkadopoulos et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Cavernous hemangiomas of the adrenal gland are rare benign non-functioning neoplastic tumors. To our knowledge 55 cases have been reported in the literature to date. Case presentation We report the first case of a large non-functioning adrenal cavernous hemangioma that was incidentally found during the preoperative staging workup of a 75 year old woman with left breast adenocarcinoma. Imaging with US CT scan and MRI showed a heterogeneous 8 cm mass with non-specific radiological features that was located on .