title: Growth patterns of placental and paraovarian adrenocortical heterotopias are different.
abstract: Two cases of adrenocortical heterotopia are reported. One is in a full-term placenta. The other is adjacent to the ovarian hilum of an adult. Both are incidental findings. Despite sharing similar histological and immunological features, they show different growth patterns. The literature is reviewed and adrenocortical heterotopias of different locations are compared. New hypotheses of its histogenesis are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.
authors.forename: Dorota A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Popiolek