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Case Reports
. 2017 Nov 22;6(1):37-44.
doi: 10.1002/ccr3.1279. eCollection 2018 Jan.

Functional plurihormonal adrenal oncocytoma: case report and literature review

Pablo René Costanzo  1 , Andrea Laura Paissan  1 , Pablo Knoblovits  1
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Case Reports

Functional plurihormonal adrenal oncocytoma: case report and literature review

Pablo René Costanzo et al. Clin Case Rep. .

Abstract

We present a 27-year-old woman with an adrenal oncocytoma. This is a very rare entity. We provide a review of the clinical, biochemical and pathological features of cases reported in the literature.

Keywords: Adrenal gland; adrenal oncocytic carcinoma; adrenal oncocytic neoplasm; adrenal oncocytoma; oncocytoma.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
CT scan showed a 50 × 42‐mm rounded, solid, homogeneous expansive lesion of distinct borders in the left adrenal gland.
Figure 2
Figure 2
CT scan showed a slightly enhanced tumor in the left adrenal gland.
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