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Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Retroperitoneal teratoma simulating giant adrenal myelolipoma: a diagnostic puzzle
  1. Sunny Goel1,
  2. Ruchir Aeron1,
  3. Apul Goel1,
  4. Atin Singhai2
  1. 1 Department of Urology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  2. 2 Department of Pathology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Professor Apul Goel, drapul.goel{at}gmail.com

Summary

Teratoma is a germ-cell tumour that is common in para-axial regions. Retroperitoneal teratoma is rare and comprise only about 1% of all teratomas. We present a 21-year-old female who presented with a lump in the abdomen. After radiological investigations, she was diagnosed as case of adrenal myelolipoma which on excision turned out histologically to be retroperitoneal teratoma. Our case highlights the limitation of radiological investigations in preoperative diagnosis of teratoma.

  • adrenal disorders
  • oncology
  • urological cancer

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221762

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    • Handling editor Seema Biswas

    • Contributors All authors have substantially contributed to the concept, design, supervision, processing, execution and critical analysis of the paper and have approved the final version. Additionally, there are no conflict of interest in connection with this paper.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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