Adrenal lipomas: incidental autopsy findings.
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.
Rodríguez-Calvo
María S
MS
Department of Pathology and Forensic Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. apimlsol@usc.es
Suárez-Peñaranda
José M
JM
Alvarez
María T
MT
Muñoz
José I
JI
Ortiz-Rey
José A
JA
Concheiro
Luis
L
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