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A Novel Method: Super-selective Adrenal Venous Sampling
Published on: September 15, 2017
Primary adrenal leiomyosarcoma with inferior vena cava thrombosis
Tomonori Kato1, Tomonori Kato, Shinichi Sakamoto
1The Department of Urology, Tokyo Kosei Nenkin Hospital, 5-1 Tsukudo-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8543, Japan. jpn3899@tokyo.interq.or.jp
Abstract:
We report a primary adrenal leiomyosarcoma in a 59-year-old man. Computed tomography demonstrated a poorly enhanced mass, measuring 10 cm, between the left kidney and the normal left adrenal gland, with tumor thrombus in the inferior vena cava (IVC). The patient underwent left radical nephroadrenalectomy with IVC thrombectomy. The histological diagnosis was adrenal leiomyosarcoma. Adrenal leiomyosarcomas are extremely rare. Only seven cases have been reported previously in the English-language literature.