Incidental Detection of Adrenal Myelolipoma in a middle age female patient: a case report

Abstract

Adrenal myelolipoma is a rare benign neoplastic lesion, mostly asymptomatic and unilateral. It originates from the adrenal gland and is made up of mature adipose tissues with the hematopoietic series. Adrenal lipomas are extremely rare and always benign and non-secreting. We describe a case of a hypertensive female patient who presented with abdominal pain. Physical examination and investigations were unremarkable. Ultrasound abdomen showed a hyperechoic mass on the left side of the abdomen. Contrastenhanced abdomen illustrated a large heterogeneous mix density lesion in the left suprarenal gland showing enhancing soft tissue and macroscopic fat components suggesting adrenal myelolipoma. Although the patient did not have any related complications but owing to the large size of the tumor, surgical resection was planned which was later done successfully

Keywords

• myelolipoma
• adrenal gland
• lipoma