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Giant adrenal myelolipoma with minimal fat content in a patient with homozygous beta‐thalassemia: Appearance on MRI
Author(s) -
Kelekis Nikolaos L.,
Alexopoulou Efthymia,
Brountzos Elias N.,
Ladis Vasilis,
Boussiotou Angeliki,
Kelekis Dimitrios A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of magnetic resonance imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1522-2586
pISSN - 1053-1807
DOI - 10.1002/jmri.10401
Subject(s) - myelolipoma , histopathology , medicine , differential diagnosis , magnetic resonance imaging , pathology , beta thalassemia , radiology , adrenal gland , thalassemia
Giant adrenal myelolipoma is an uncommon entity. We present the atypical MR imaging findings of a giant adrenal myelolipoma in a patient with homozygous beta‐thalassemia with histopathology correlation. The tumor showed a drop in signal on the opposed‐phase images, with no evidence of macroscopic fat contents, and demonstrated very high signal intensity on T2‐weighted images. Giant adrenal myelolipoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of tumors with the combination of the above MR imaging characteristics. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2003;18:608–611. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.