Giant Lipoma Of The Adrenal Gland

Milathianakis, Konstantinos N.; Farfarelos, C.; Mpogdanos, Ioannis M.; Karamanolakis, Dimitrios

doi:10.1016/s0022-5347(05)65198-1

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“…Singaporewalla recently reported a 15.6 cm tumor [6]. The size of the lipoma in our patient was 16 × 14 × 7 cm with a weight of 950 g; the only larger one reported was asymptomatic [10]. Finally, 66% of adrenal lipomas develop in the right adrenal gland, whereas in our case the tumor developed in the left adrenal gland (Table 1).…”

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“…Lipomas of the adrenal gland are very rare [3-5]. The majority of reported adrenal lipomas are small incidentalomas [3,6,8,10,11] and fewer than half are symptomatic (Table 1). Symptoms may be acute, subacute, or chronic.…”

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“…In all, 58% were asymptomatic or were found post-mortem [3,6,8,10,11]. However, there are case reports of adrenal lipomas presenting either with acute abdominal pain due to hemorrhage [6] or abscess [9], or with subacute to chronic manifestations, such as hypertension or pain [6,12-14].…”

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A giant adrenal lipoma presenting in a woman with chronic mild postprandial abdominal pain: a case report

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IntroductionAdrenal lipomas are rare, small, benign, non-functioning tumors, which must be histopathologically differentiated from other tumors such as myelolipomas or liposarcomas. They are usually identified incidentally during autopsy, imaging, or laparotomy. Occasionally, they may present acutely due to complications such as abdominal pain from retroperitoneal bleeding, or systemic symptoms of infection. We report a giant adrenal lipoma (to the best of our knowledge, the second largest in the literature) clinically presenting with chronic mild postprandial pain.Case presentationA 54-year-old Caucasian woman presented several times over a period of 10 years to various emergency departments complaining of long-term mild postprandial abdominal pain. Although clinical examinations were unrevealing, an abdominal computed tomography scan performed at her most recent presentation led to the identification of a large lipoma of the left adrenal gland, which occupied most of the retroperitoneal space. Myelolipoma was ruled out due to the absence of megakaryocytes, immature leukocytes, or erythrocytes. Liposarcoma was ruled out due to the absence of lipoblasts. The size of the lipoma (16 × 14 × 7 cm) is, to the best of our knowledge, the second largest reported to date. After surgical resection, our patient was relieved of her symptoms and remains healthy six years postoperatively.ConclusionPhysicians should be aware that differential diagnosis of mild chronic abdominal pain in patients presenting in emergency rooms may include large adrenal lipomas. When initial diagnostic investigation is not revealing, out-patient specialist evaluation should be planned to enable appropriate further investigations.

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“…Adrenal lipomatous tumors are uncommon, accounting for 4.8% of the primary adrenal tumors noted in the 30 years period [14][15][16]. Most of these tumors are asymptomatic and found incidentally.…”

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Primary Adrenal Tumors-Five Years Single Centre Experience

Patel¹,

Vanikar²,

Suthar³

et al. 2012

OJPathology

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Primary adrenal tumors are less commonly encountered in clinic. They may be functional/non-functional and noted incidentally when investigating for other problems. However there is no study available in Asian countries, and especially India regarding the incidence and natural history of these tumors. We carried out a study on adrenal tumors noted in our set-up for last five years to document the prevalence of adrenal tumors, their presentation along with the most common tumor followed by incidence of other tumors and their clinical and pathological presentation. This was a retrospective study in our hospital from June 2006 to 2011. 29 adrenalectomies performed over 5 years. Their clinical presentation and investigations were recorded and analyzed. Adrenal tumors accounted for 0.6% of total surgical specimens, 18 out of 29 belonged to males. Majority (85.2%) of the patients were adults with mean age, 39.8 years. Majority (79.3%) had presented with symptoms, incidentalomas were found in 20.7% patients out of which 2 belonged to potential kidney donors. Nonfunctioning tumors were noted in 58.6% patients. Pheochromocytoma was the commonest tumor noted in 68.9% followed by adrenal cortical adenoma in 13.7%, carcinoma in 6.9% and lipoma, myelolipoma and ganglioneuroma, 3.45% each. All the patients are doing well over a mean follow-up of 2.5 years. To our knowledge this is the first study on incidence and natural history of primary adrenal tumors which are less commonly encountered and usually have good prognosis.

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“…The size of adrenal lipomas ranged from 1 to 20 cm. They were usually small, although large adrenal lipomas have been reported recently 7,8 . The largest mass described until now was 20 cm in diameter, weighing 2900 g, and was found incidentally during ultrasonographic examination 7 .…”

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Adrenal lipomas: Incidental autopsy findings

Rodriguez‐Calvo

Suárez‐Peñaranda

Álvarez

et al. 2007

Pathology International

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Two rare cases of lipomas of the adrenal gland are reported. In both cases the tumor was found incidentally at autopsy, in the course of the medicolegal investigation of death. The first case involved a small tumor of the left adrenal gland in a 70-year-old man who died by drowning. In the second case, a previously healthy 45-year-old man died suddenly. At autopsy a lipoma of the right adrenal gland was associated with a pheochromocytoma in the contralateral gland.

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Giant Lipoma Of The Adrenal Gland

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A giant adrenal lipoma presenting in a woman with chronic mild postprandial abdominal pain: a case report

A giant adrenal lipoma presenting in a woman with chronic mild postprandial abdominal pain: a case report

Primary Adrenal Tumors-Five Years Single Centre Experience

Adrenal lipomas: Incidental autopsy findings

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