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A Novel Method: Super-selective Adrenal Venous Sampling
Published on: September 15, 2017
Incidental giant adrenal lymphangioma presenting as nonfunctional cystic mass
Mehmet Tolga Kafadar1, Ekrem Özyuvalı2, Abdullayev Mirsaleh Miryaguboğlu3
1Clinic of General Surgery, Health Sciences University Mehmet Akif İnan Training and Research Hospital, Şanlıurfa, Turkey.
Abstract:
Surrenal masses can be encountered with many different clinical manifestations and a diverse spectrum of etiologies in clinical practice. Recent advances in imaging and laboratory studies as well as their increasingly widespread use and easy accessibility have currently made it possible to diagnose a greater number of surrenal masses than ever. The basic approach principles vary for incidentally detected masses, benign/malignant masses, and hormonoactive masses. Lymphangiomas are benign congenital malformations of lymphatic channels that primarily affect the neck and head region. They are typically found in children younger than 2 years of age, they are uncommon in adults, and they rarely involve surrenal glands. In this paper, we present a woman with a hormonally inactive right giant surrenal mass showing recent rapid growth, which was diagnosed to be a lymphangioma with an atypical localization in the histopathological examination. The patient was operated with right surrenalectomy and total mass excision via laparoscopic lateral transperitoneal approach.
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