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Published on: September 15, 2017
Adrenal lipomas: incidental autopsy findings
María S Rodríguez-Calvo1, José M Suárez-Peñaranda, María T Alvarez
1Department of Pathology and Forensic Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. apimlsol@usc.es
Abstract:
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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