TY - JOUR
T1 - A case of adrenal rest tumor of the liver
T2 - Radiological imaging and immunohistochemical study of steroidogenic enzymes
AU - Baba, Yoshifumi
AU - Beppu, Toru
AU - Imai, Katsunori
AU - Masuda, Toshiro
AU - Iyama, Ken Ichi
AU - Sasano, Hironobu
AU - Baba, Hideo
PY - 2008/10/13
Y1 - 2008/10/13
N2 - A case of adrenal rest tumor in the liver of a 67-year-old female was reported. The tumor appeared on diagnostic imaging as a hypervascular and fat-containing mass at the periphery of right hepatic lobe and required differential diagnosis from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Pathological diagnosis of the intraoperative frozen section taken under laparoscopic liver biopsy could not exclude fat-containing HCC. Therefore, she underwent partial resection of the right hepatic lobe. A yellowish-brown mass, 17 × 14 × 11mm in a diameter, was located in the subcapsular portion. Histologically, the mass presented features similar to those of the adrenal cortex and was composed of pale cells. Immunohistochemically, the mass expressed the adrenal 4-binding protein and several enzymes involved in the synthesis of adrenocortical steroids. Based on these findings, the hepatic mass was finally diagnosed as an adrenal rest tumor of the liver.
AB - A case of adrenal rest tumor in the liver of a 67-year-old female was reported. The tumor appeared on diagnostic imaging as a hypervascular and fat-containing mass at the periphery of right hepatic lobe and required differential diagnosis from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Pathological diagnosis of the intraoperative frozen section taken under laparoscopic liver biopsy could not exclude fat-containing HCC. Therefore, she underwent partial resection of the right hepatic lobe. A yellowish-brown mass, 17 × 14 × 11mm in a diameter, was located in the subcapsular portion. Histologically, the mass presented features similar to those of the adrenal cortex and was composed of pale cells. Immunohistochemically, the mass expressed the adrenal 4-binding protein and several enzymes involved in the synthesis of adrenocortical steroids. Based on these findings, the hepatic mass was finally diagnosed as an adrenal rest tumor of the liver.
KW - Adrenal rest tumor of the liver
KW - Radiological imaging
KW - Steroidogenic enzymes
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2008.00360.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2008.00360.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 18564144
AN - SCOPUS:53349153428
VL - 38
SP - 1154
EP - 1158
JO - Hepatology Research
JF - Hepatology Research
SN - 1386-6346
IS - 11
ER -