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Case Reports
. 2010:2010:987128.
doi: 10.1155/2010/987128. Epub 2010 Aug 23.

Renal cell carcinoma mimicking adrenal tumor

Mohammad Kazem Moslemi  1 , Shabir Al-Mousawi, Mohammad Hasan Dehghani Firoozabadi
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Case Reports

Renal cell carcinoma mimicking adrenal tumor

Mohammad Kazem Moslemi et al. J Oncol. 2010.

Abstract

There are a variety of causes of adrenal pseudotumors on computerized tomography (CT) scan, including upper-pole renal mass, gastric diverticulum, prominent splenic lobulation, pancreatic mass, hepatic mass, and periadrenal varices. We present a case of a large subhepatic mass that discrimination of its origin from neighborhood organs was difficult preoperatively. Our patient was a 58 years old man, that three months after an unsuccessful operation in another center for a pseudoadrenal mass underwent a very difficult subcapsular tumorectomy in our center.

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Figure 1
CT scan of the patient revealing the subhepatic mass.
Figure 2
Figure 2
The histopathological examination (x100 HPF) of the tumorectomy with H&E revealed clear cells of RCC.
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