Endocrinology Research and Practice
Case Report

Adrenal Ganglioneuroma: Case Report

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Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sivas, Turkey

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Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Sivas, Turkey

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Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Urology, Sivas, Turkey

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Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Sivas, Turkey

Endocrinol Res Pract 2011; 15: 74-76
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ABSTRACT

Ganglioneuroma (GN) is a rare benign tumor arising mainly from neural crest cells and consisting of Schwann and ganglion cells. GN rarely occurs from the adrenal medulla and is observed most commonly in children and young adults. It is not associated with hormonal activity and is clinically asymptomatic. We present a 35-year-old woman whose abdominal ultrasonography for abdominal pain revealed in the rightadrenal gland, a biochemically normal mass that was minimally hypointense on T1-weighted and hyperintense on T2-weighted magnetic resonance images (MRI) and which was pathologically diagnosed as GN after adrenalectomy. 

 

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