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Adrenal lipomas: Incidental autopsy findings
Author(s) -
RodríguezCalvo María S.,
SuárezPeñaranda José M.,
Álvarez María T.,
Muñoz José I.,
OrtizRey José A.,
Concheiro Luis
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pathology international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1827
pISSN - 1320-5463
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2007.02166.x
Subject(s) - autopsy , adrenal gland , lipoma , medicine , pheochromocytoma , pathology , anatomy
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.