ArticleCase reports in surgery2017
Adrenal Rest Tumor of the Liver Preoperatively Diagnosed as Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
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- Hepatic Ectopic Adrenal Gland in a Patient with Hepatitis C Virus Who Achieved a Sustained Virological Response.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2026Article
- A hepatic adrenal rest tumor with a benign gallbladder tumor: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Hepatic Adrenal Rest Tumors Mimicking Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.Cureus · 2022Article
- Emergence of Ectopic Adrenal Tissues-What are the Probable Mechanisms?Journal of clinical research in pediatric endocrinology · 2022Review
- Multiple enlarging hepatic and retroperitoneal myelolipomas in the setting of Cushing disease.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundHepatic adrenal rest tumors are rare and show similar findings to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). It is difficult to distinguish an adrenal rest tumor from HCC due to radiological similarity. We report a case of an adrenal rest tumor in the liver that mimicked HCC radiologically. CASE PRESENTATION: A 67-year-old female was referred to our hospital due to the finding of a hepatic mass. Enhanced computed tomography revealed a 17 mm well-defined tumor that was enhanced in the arterial phase and washed out in the portal and delayed phase in the posterosuperior subsegment of the right hepatic lobe, and HCC was suspected. We performed a subsegmental resection of the liver. Microscopic findings showed that the tumor was composed of pale cells, and tumor cells were aligned in alveolar or fascicular arrangements in a similar manner to features of adrenocortical tissue. Immunohistochemically, the tumor expressed synaptophysin and CD56. The final histopathologic diagnosis in this case was an adrenal rest tumor of the liver.
conclusionsAn adrenal rest tumor is similar to HCC in radiological findings. This hepatic tumor should be added to the list of radiological differential diagnoses of hypervascular hepatic tumors.
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