Giant adrenal myelolipoma with minimal fat content in a patient with homozygous beta-thalassemia: appearance on MRI.
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.
Kelekis
Nikolaos L
NL
2nd Department of Radiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. kelnik@med.uoa.gr
Alexopoulou
Efthymia
E
Brountzos
Elias N
EN
Ladis
Vasilis
V
Boussiotou
Angeliki
A
Kelekis
Dimitrios A
DA
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000473:pathology; D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D017086:beta-Thalassemia / Q000150:complications*