Acute Budd-Chiari syndrome as first manifestation of adrenocortical carcinoma.
We report the case of a young woman in whom investigations for acute Budd-Chiari syndrome disclosed an hormone-secreting but clinically nonfunctioning adrenocortical carcinoma. We supply a very brief review of the literature.
D000306:Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000473:pathology