Work

Cytological diagnosis of Adrenocortical Carcinoma with metastatic lesion in liver

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Adrenocortical Carcinoma (ACC) is rare tumor with a reported incidence of 2 cases per million individuals per year. These tumors are highly aggressive and at the time of diagnosis, these are at higher stage. Here, we report a case of adrenal mass and multiple hypodense lesions in liver detected on imaging study which on subsequent USG-guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) performed from adrenal glands and liver turned out to be a ACC with metastatic lesion by using immunocytochemistry as an ancillary technique which showed tumor cells immunoreactivity for inhibin and calretinin; and negativity for cytokeratin, vimentin and epithelial membrane antigen (EMA) thus confirming the suspected morphological diagnosis and highlighting the accuracy of FNAC as a diagnostic tool.

Source: Annals of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Authors: Vasudha Bhagat, Hemali Tailor, Reena Dudhat, Ravi M Unjiya

Institution: Government Medical College

Language: English

Topic: Adrenal and Paraganglionic Tumors

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1587645745

FWCI:

Cites: 10

Cited by:

Related to: 10