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Incidentally discovered adrenal myelolipoma associated with hyperthyroidism

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Adrenal myelolipomas are uncommon, nonfunctioning tumors that tend to be discovered incidentally on imaging. Such tumors are composed of mature adipose tissue and hematopoietic elements, but their etiology is still unknown. Thyroid hormones have important effects on development, growth, and metabolism, as well as tumorigenesis. We report a case of adrenal myelolipoma in a patient with hyperthyroidism; this benign tumor expressed both thyroid hormone receptor α and β.

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  1. Department of Urology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi, Tokyo, 173-8606, Japan

    Hisamitsu Ide, Takashi Nakagawa, Keisuke Saito, Yutaka Kamiyama, Satoru Muto, Hiroshi Okada & Shigeo Horie

  2. Department of Pathology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuichi Terado

  3. Department of Pathology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Tetsuo Imamura

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Ide, H., Terado, Y., Nakagawa, T. et al. Incidentally discovered adrenal myelolipoma associated with hyperthyroidism. Int J Clin Oncol 12, 379–381 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10147-007-0662-1

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