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Giant adrenal angiomyolipoma
1Department of Urology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, 1 Minde Road, Nanchang 330006, People's Republic of China. honglinhu@126.com
Context:
We report on a case of adrenal angiomyolipoma.
Objective:
The aim was to present a case report and review of the literature about adrenal angiomyolipoma.
Design:
The case report includes a history of patient data and literature review.
Setting:
The patient was offered adrenalectomy with adrenal gland neoplasms and gave consent. The tumor was completely removed.
Patient:
We present the case of a 55-yr-old patient with a 15 × 16-cm adrenal angiomyolipoma.
Intervention:
We performed adrenalectomy with adrenal gland neoplasms.
Results:
The histopathological features confirmed the diagnosis of adrenal angiomyolipoma. The patient made an uneventful recovery and was normal at the 6-month follow-up.
Conclusions:
Angiomyolipomas are rare mesenchymal tumors derived from perivascular epithelioid cells. These are commonly found in the kidney. Angiomyolipoma arising in the adrenal is a very rare entity. We present a case of adrenal angiomyolipoma. In our case, the tumor size was (15 × 16 cm), the largest being reported.
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