title: Idiopathic unilateral adrenal haemorrhage and adrenal mass: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: We report an unusual case of idiopathic unilateral adrenal haemorrhage (AH) in a 55-year-old patient. This rare case had two characteristics that made it worth of report. First, idiopathic adrenal haemorrhage is very uncommon, and second it was presented as a huge, 23 cm diameter and 2,123 gr weight, "silent" adrenal mass. It is important to distinguish a benign lesion like this from a neoplasm, although we were not able to identify it preoperatively and the diagnosis was only made after the excised specimen was examined by a group of experienced histopathologists. Only a few similar published cases, to our knowledge, are described in the worldwide literature and even fewer of this size.
authors: Department of Surgery, Nicosia General Hospital, 29 Patmos Street, Strovolos, 2062 Nicosia, Cyprus.
authors: Christos
authors: C
authors: Christoforides
authors: Athanasios
authors: A
authors: Petrou
authors: Marios
authors: M
authors: Loizou
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