title: Adrenal lipomas: incidental autopsy findings.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Forensic Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. apimlsol@usc.es
authors.forename: María S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Calvo
authors.forename: José M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Suárez-Peñaranda
authors.forename: María T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.forename: José I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Muñoz
authors.forename: José A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ortiz-Rey
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Concheiro
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008067:Lipoma / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000473:pathology