Giant adrenal myelolipoma with minimal fat content in a patient with homozygous beta-thalassemia: Appearance on MRI
✍ Scribed by Nikolaos L. Kelekis; Efthymia Alexopoulou; Elias N. Brountzos; Vasilis Ladis; Angeliki Boussiotou; Dimitrios A. Kelekis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 294 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1053-1807
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Giant adrenal myelolipoma is an uncommon entity. We present the atypical MR imaging findings of a giant adrenal myelolipoma in a patient with homozygous beta‐thalassemia with histopathology correlation. The tumor showed a drop in signal on the opposed‐phase images, with no evidence of macroscopic fat contents, and demonstrated very high signal intensity on T2‐weighted images. Giant adrenal myelolipoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of tumors with the combination of the above MR imaging characteristics. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2003;18:608–611. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.