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Nonfunctioning adrenocortical carcinoma in a young girl

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A 9 year old Japanese girl was admitted complaining of left hypochondrial pain and a large upper left abdominal tumor. There were no clinical or laboratory signs of hormonal abnormality. Intravenous pyelography showed marked compression and deformity of the kidney by a tumor. This tumor was excised together with the left kidney. The pathological diagnosis was adrenocortical carcinoma. Postoperatively, the child was given neither irradiation nor chemotherapy. Twenty-one months after the surgery, there was a hepatic metastasis, and she died 40 months after surgery from a combination of hepatic metastases and local tumor recurrence.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Nagoya City Higashi General Hospital, 1-2-23 Wakamizu, Chikusa-ku, 464, Nagoya, Japan

    Masae Tatematsu

  2. Department of Surgery, Nagoya City Higashi General Hospital, 1-2-23 Wakamizu, Chikusa-ku, 464, Nagoya, Japan

    Hirotaka Kishikawa MD, Tsutomu Mizuno, Itaru Takagi, Yosuke Yamakawa, Takuya Shimozato & Kyuji Honda

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Kishikawa, H., Mizuno, T., Takagi, I. et al. Nonfunctioning adrenocortical carcinoma in a young girl. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 15, 477–482 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02470094

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