title: Myxoid adrenal adenoma with focal pseudoglandular pattern.
abstract: Adrenal cortical tumors with myxoid change are rare tumors. To our knowledge, only 22 cases have been described so far in literature, which include 13 carcinomas and 9 adenomas. A pseudoglandular pattern has been described in 9 of these tumors. We report a case of a myxoid adenoma of the left adrenal gland in a 67-year-old woman, with a focal pseudoglandular pattern involving about 20% of the studied tumor. Rest of the tumor was composed of anastomosing cords of tumor cells. Abundant myxoid stroma was present, which stained positively with alcian blue and was weakly focally positive with periodic acid Schiff. Immunophenotype was consistent with an adrenal tumor, i.e., positive for vimentin, inhibin, and melan A. Cytokeratin AE1/AE3 and chromogranin were negative. MIB-1 index was < 0.1%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India. michelledepadua@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Padua
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rajagopal
mesh_terms: D000306:Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D018246:Adrenocortical Adenoma / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged