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Adrenocortical carcinosarcoma: a case report and review of the literature.
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- Sarcomatoid adrenocortical carcinoma with aggressive disease course: a rare case report and literature review.Discover oncology · 2026Article
- A case of mineralocorticoid intermediate-producing sarcomatoid adrenal cortical carcinoma: case report and review of literature.Endocrine journal · 2025Review
- Adrenocortical Sarcomatoid Carcinoma Revealed by an Adrenal Incidentaloma: A Case Report.Cureus · 2024Article
- Insights into Clinical Features and Outcomes of Adrenal Cortical Carcinosarcoma.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Metastatic bilateral adrenal sarcomatoid carcinoma: Evaluation byAsia Oceania journal of nuclear medicine & biology · 2022Article
- Adrenocortical Carcinoma: Updates of Clinical and Pathological Features after Renewed World Health Organisation Classification and Pathology Staging.Biomedicines · 2021Review
- Adrenocortical sarcomatoid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature.Journal of surgical case reports · 2020Article
- Adrenocortical neoplasm of uncertain malignant potential with a myelolipomatous component.BMJ case reports · 2020Article
- Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Miraculous Healers or Dormant Killers?Stem cell reviews and reports · 2018Article
- Myxoid and Sarcomatoid Variants of Adrenocortical Carcinoma: Analysis of Rare Variants in Single Tertiary Care Center.Journal of Korean medical science · 2017Article
- Primary adrenal sarcomatoid carcinoma metastatic to the lung: Case report and review of the literature.Oncology letters · 2016Article
- A Case Report of Bilateral Adrenal Sarcomatoid Carcinoma.Case reports in surgery · 2016Article
- Diagnostic and prognostic features in adrenocortical carcinoma: a single institution case series and review of the literature.World journal of surgical oncology · 2015Review
- Rare incidence of primary adrenocortical carcinosarcoma: A case report and literature review.Oncology letters · 2015Article
- Adrenal sarcomatoid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature.The Ulster medical journal · 2014Review
- Primary adrenal sarcomatoid carcinoma.Clinics and practice · 2014Article
- Adrenal cortical carcinoma with extension into the inferior vena cava--case report and literature review.Diagnostic pathology · 2014Review
- Pathology of the adrenal cortex: a reappraisal of the past 25 years focusing on adrenal cortical tumors.Endocrine pathology · 2014Article
- Adrenal collision tumors and their mimics: multimodality imaging findings.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2013Article
- Ulnar malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour diagnosis in a mixed-breed dog as a model to study human: histologic, immunohistochemical, and clinicopathologic study.Diagnostic pathology · 2013Article
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Abstract
Adrenocortical carcinosarcoma is an extremely rare and aggressive variant of adrenocortical carcinoma characterized by the presence of both carcinomatous and sarcomatous components, with the latter often showing heterologous differentiation. Due to the rarity and unusual histology, it may pose a diagnostic challenge. In order to increase awareness and identify potential diagnostic pitfalls, we report the ninth case of non-functioning adrenocortical carcinosarcoma in a 45-year-old man who presented with worsening epigastric pain and a left large retroperitoneal mass in close proximity to the body/tail of pancreas and third portion of the duodenum with displacement of the kidney without parenchymal invasion and multiple liver nodules detected by computed tomographic scan. On en bloc resection, the tumor grossly did not involve the pancreas, kidney or colon. Histologically, the tumor was composed of two distinct components - an epithelioid component with granular cytoplasm that stained for synaptophysin, Melan-A, calretinin, and vimentin compatible with adrenocortical differentiation, and a pleomorphic to spindled component that was positive for desmin and myogenin, compatible with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation. A wedge biopsy of a liver nodule showed morphologic features similar to the epithelial component of the primary tumor. The patient died three months after surgery due to locoregional and distant recurrence. Adrenocortical carcinosarcoma is a rare malignancy that adds to the differential diagnostic considerations for a retroperitoneal epithelioid malignancy. Awareness of this as a possibility will help in distinguishing this tumor from other carcinomas, melanomas, and true sarcomas.
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