title: Adrenal myelolipoma's connection with adenoma in the same adrenal gland.
abstract: Adrenal myelolipoma is a rare benign tumour. This tumour is generally considered as a type of hormonally inactive neoplasm, which is composed of mature adipose tissue and normal haematopoietic cells. Rarely adrenal myelolipoma and adrenal cortical adenoma could be found together in the same gland. Due to myelolipoma's asymptomatic character, it is generally diagnosed incidentally. In fact, myelolipoma can now be easily detected because of improved techniques such as ultrasound, CT and MRI and widespread use of imaging. Because of this a 66-year-old male patient with abdominal pain, proved that adrenal myelolipoma and non-functional adrenal cortical adenoma are rare in the same gland. The case presented here deals with different outcome which is rare in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey.
authors.forename: Esma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gurbuz
authors.forename: Hamide
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sayar
authors.forename: Sevgi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bakaris
authors.forename: Mehmet Fatih
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Inci
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000473:pathology*; D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D018246:Adrenocortical Adenoma / Q000473:pathology*; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018209:Myelolipoma / Q000473:pathology*; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*