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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Adrenocortical carcinoma and sudden death |
Author: | Marshall, D. Gilbert, J. Byard, R. |
Citation: | Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology, 2007; 3(1):53-56 |
Publisher: | Humana Press, Inc. |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
ISSN: | 1547-769X 1556-2891 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Drew T. Marshall, John D. Gilbert and Roger W. Byard |
Abstract: | A 26-year-old man who presented with a 2-year history of intermittent gynecomastia with recent onset of fever, night sweats, and abdominal distension was found to have a left-sided adrenocortical carcinoma with metastases to the liver and spine. Sudden death occurred 1 month after his presentation. At autopsy a saddle pulmonary thromboembolus was found occluding the pulmonary outflow tract, with smaller more peripheral pulmonary thromboemboli. No tumor deposits were identified in the thromboemboli. The thromboemboli had arisen from a tongue of tumor that had grown through the left adrenal vein into the inferior vena cava. Despite a high rate of angio-invasion there are very few reports of sudden death resulting from this phenomenon in patients with adrenocortical carcinoma. |
DOI: | 10.1385/FSMP:3:1:53 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 6 Pathology publications |
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