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.
2nd Department of Radiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. kelnik@med.uoa.gr
Nikolaos L
NL
Kelekis
Efthymia
E
Alexopoulou
Elias N
EN
Brountzos
Vasilis
V
Ladis
Angeliki
A
Boussiotou
Dimitrios A
DA
Kelekis
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*