SFEBES2017 ePoster Presentations Neoplasia, Cancer and Late Effects (8 abstracts)
Case report of adrenocortical carcinoma in a nigerian woman
Akinyele Akinlade 1 , Abdulwahid Saliu 1 , Benjamin Odusanya 1 , Taiwo Owoseni 1 , Olumide Alao 1 , Olugbenga Oyewole 1 , Oritseweyinmi Dottie 1 , Olufemi Ogunbadewa 1 , Surajudeen Quadri 1 , Michael Olamoyegun 2 & Ofem Enang 3
1General Hospital Odan, Lagos, Nigeria; 2LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Nigeria; 3University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria.
Background: Adrenocortical carcinoma (AC) is relatively rare (0.02–0.2% of all cancer-related deaths), and can have protean clinical manifestations. Majority of cases are metastatic at the time of diagnosis, with the local periadrenal tissue, lymph nodes, lungs, liver, and bone as commonest sites of spread. Early detection of tumors is crucial for curative resection.
Case: A 63-year old Nigerian businesswoman was found to have a large right adrenal tumor while being investigated for chronic anemia. She is a known hypertensive for about 10 years controlled with Nifedipine. Younger sister died from adrenal cancer in the USA 2 years earlier.
She was admitted into the hospital because of complaints of profound tiredness, poor appetite and poor sleep and for investigation of the chronic anemia. Her hematocrit level had dropped from 31 to 22.3% within 2 months. There were no indications of chronic blood loss from the GIT or par vaginam and no renal disease.
Her examination showed in addition to palor, a large right hypochondrial/loin mass that abdominal ultrasound and CT scans showed was a large solid right suprarenal mass (13.8 cm×12.8×12.1 cm) with a few calcific foci (soft tissue density 30–40HU) and compressing the right kidney and liver. Post-contrast, there was mild heterogenous, predominantly peripheral enhancement with central non-enhancing area (40-70HU). Multiple abnormal vascular channels were seen within the mass. But no obvious invasion of visualized abdominal organs or surrounding right renal vein or IVC.
Her serum/plasma sodium, phosphate,calcium, aldosterone, rennin, TSH, cortisol, metanephrine and normetanephrine were within normal limits. But she had hypokalemia that was corrected with spironolactone and KCl (both oral and infusion) and low-normal magnesium.
At surgery, a well encapsulated adrenal solid mass, weighing 2000 g was removed and histology findings were those of adrenocortic al carcinoma.
She is being followed up by the oncologist, surgeons and physicians at the out-patient clinics.
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