Myelolipoma is an uncommon benign tumour composed of mature fat tissue and haematopoietic elements and is most commonly found in the adrenal gland.
We report a case, which was discovered incidentally on chest X-ray, of a rare occurrence of multifocal extra-adrenal myelolipoma in the thoracic paravertebral region. This was further investigated with multi-detector computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The presumed diagnosis, of extra-adrenal myelolipoma, was histologically confirmed via tissue sample obtained by computed tomography guided biopsy. We compare the adrenal and extra-adrenal entities from the perspective of published literature and also review the cases, published in Pubmed, of extra-adrenal myelolipomas in order to summarize the different locations of this lesion.
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Hakim A, Rozeik C. Are you the author?
Department of Radiology, Loerrach district hospital, Loerrach, Germany.
Reference: J Radiol Case Rep. 2014 Jan 1;8(1):1-12.
doi: 10.3941/jrcr.v8i1.1551.
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24967008
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