A Case of Adrenectomy for the Metastasis of the Right Adrenal Gland after Curative Operation of Rectal Cancer.

Complete resection of rectal cancer with a synchronous solitary adrenal metastasis: A case report

“…A similar case report in Japan found that, out of 53 cases of adrenal metastasis derived from colorectal cancer, 18 cases were solitary adrenal metastases, and the other cases were part of systemic metastases [ [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] ]. Fourteen cases had disease-free intervals >6 months, which means that they were metachronous [ [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] ]. Five cases had disease-free intervals <6 months, which means that they were synchronous ( Table 1 , Table 2 ) [ [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] ].…”

“… Primary Adrenal metastasis No. Author Year Age Sex Site Pathology Stage Side DAR Prognosis DMA 1 Fujii [ 6 ] 1995 57 M A ss,n0,tub1,ly0,v1 II R 3y2m 9y0m/alive 2 Nakaguchi [ 6 ] 1995 60 F R a2,n0,tub2,ly0,v0 II L 1y9m 4y0m/alive 3 Mizutani [ 7 ] 1995 58 M R a2,n0,tub1,ly2,v1 II R 1y5m 2y7m/dead 4m : lung, prostate gland 4 Itoh [ 8 ] 1995 65 F C ss,n0,tub2,ly1,v0 II L 0y6m …”