title: Giant adrenal myelolipoma with hemorrhage masquerading as retroperitoneal sarcoma.
abstract: Adrenal myelolipomas are functionally inactive, rare adrenal tumors which are usually small in size and are discovered incidentally. Giant symptomatic myelolipomas have rarely been reported in medical literature. Here, we describe the case of a 40-year-old female patient who presented to the surgical outpatient department with left flank pain. An ultrasonogram of the abdomen suggested a large retroperitoneal tumor which was then surgically resected. Histopathological examination of the resected specimen revealed a giant adrenal myelolipoma with intratumoral hemorrhage. The patient was relieved of symptoms and was free of any complaints in follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, North Bengal Medical College, Sushrutanagar, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
authors.forename: Indranil
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chakrabarti
authors.forename: Nilanjana
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: Vaswati
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Das