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Case Reports
. 2024 Apr 10;2024(4):rjae229.
doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjae229. eCollection 2024 Apr.

What may an adrenal mass conceal? Adrenal gastrointestinal stromal tumor: a case report

Mahmoud Alafifi  1   2 , Abderrahmane Doumer  1   2 , El Mostaoha Abdi  1   2 , Mehdi Safieddine  1   2 , Amine Moataz  1   2 , Mohamed Dakir  1   2 , Adil Debbagh  1   2 , Rachid Aboutaieb  1   2
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What may an adrenal mass conceal? Adrenal gastrointestinal stromal tumor: a case report

Mahmoud Alafifi et al. J Surg Case Rep. .

Abstract

Extraintestinal gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are extremely rare, and adrenal GISTs are even exceptional. Only three cases have been reported in the literature thus far, the current case being the fourth. This case demonstrates the need of including extraintestinal GIST in the differential diagnosis when investigating adrenal tumors. Herein, we present a case of adrenal GIST diagnosed in a 60-year-old female patient who had a left adrenal GIST surgically removed as an adrenal tumor.

Keywords: adrenal tumor; extragastrointestinal stromal tumors.

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Conflict of interest statement

None declared.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
a. CT scan of the abdomen showing a voluminous left adrenal mass (axial section); b. CT scan of the abdomen showing a voluminous left adrenal mass (coronal section).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Operation specimen of a left adrenal mass.
Figure 3
Figure 3
a. Histological image showing the expression of C-kit or CD117 (almost constant in GISTs); b. Histological image showing the expression of CD34 marker; c. Histological expression of DOG 1 marker; d. microscopic image of HE*200 expression.
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